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...pink and plaster white, lush Cajun greens. But mostly a million browns-browns that dwarf humans in the bulk of an industrial life that has left them out. The empty oyster-processing factory where Bronson fights among discarded shells is piled with hues of lifelessness; a shoeshine and a buck-and-wing echo eerily in a world where people only gather in out-of-the-way huddles in abandoned workplaces to watch powerful men without jobs try to kill each other for money...
...born in New York City in 1922, schooled in Connecticut and Long Island. At Harvard he earned a reputation as a humorist when, in 1944, he edited the Lampoon. A small, wiry man with graying hair, Gaddis still prefers the old collegiate look of Shetland sweaters and buck shoes...
...last Friday, Fuchs passed the buck to the national board in Washington. Declaring that the case poses "precedential" questions, he informed Harvard and the union that a decision could not be made on the local level. Fuchs is responsible for interpreting precedents, not for setting them, and all policy decisions in labor relations have to be made in Washington...
...Buck Webb '78 skippered the A-division victory, while co-skippers Jim Morse and Andy Estaphaniou '79 backed him up in the second division...
...disbelieved, turned out himself to be the assassin. During the New York cop-killer man hunt (see following story), one officer left a dollar tip for the waitress after talking with an informer over lunch, then glanced back as he was walking out to see the man pocketing the buck and leaving a quarter instead. "That's just the way informers are," explains the officer resignedly...