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...suddenly the figure comes to life. The lips part, the eyes half close, the clutched guitar begins to undulate back and forth in an uncomfortably suggestive manner. And wham! The midsection of the body jolts forward to bump and grind and beat out a low-down rhythm that takes its pace from boogie and hillbilly, rock 'n' roll and something known only to Elvis and his pelvis. As the belly dance gets wilder, a peculiar sound emerges. A rusty foghorn? A voice? Or merely a noise produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation...
Last week in Manhattan death came to Clarence Birdseye. 69, and ended his restless quest. Behind him he left 300 patents, a characteristically tart self-description: "I do not consider myself a remarkable person. I am just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct...
...undetermined portion of the Harvard undergraduate body, the prospect of getting up early to prepare breakfast for 20 people is so unattractive that it is instinctively relegated to the realm of things that go bump in the night. Yet the recent report of the Overseers' Committee to Visit Harvard College points toward cooperative life as a foreseeable replacement for the relatively idyllic existence in the Houses...
...ditch. Her twin screws churn up mud within inches of the bottom, tend to make the big ship yaw from side to side. Besides, she was heading south full of highly volatile free gases left (because of an evaporator breakdown) from her last load of crude. A single bump, a single spark, could explode the gas in an instant mass of flame. Skipper Aniello Coppola stuck close to the bridge, watching every move...
...week's end both disputants exited to the same tunes to which they entered, with Showman Billy Rose grinding out a final bump for ASCAP in a parody of Sixteen Tons...