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...competitor holds his egg point up, protecting all but the tip with his fingers. His rival taps downward with the point of the other egg. WThen one cracks, the contest is resumed with the large end of the egg. The one whose egg is cracked on both point and butt surrenders his egg. If the point of A's egg and the butt of B's are cracked, then the butt of A's should be tested against the point of B's. Sometimes, the butts and points of both eggs crack. Then the contest...
...show the straits he is in, Manville lugged in a suitcase full of his canceled checks (item: $2,400 for a year's window cleaning at his Westchester County mansion). Asked about a string of checks he wrote to buy arch supports, Manville, ever the butt of his own gags, explained: "I got fallen arches carrying my first bride over the thresh-old." Meanwhile, Playboy Spreckels and San Francisco's Polyclinic Hospital were sued for $60,000 by an ex-Hollywood dancer named Georgia Asper. Her charge against Spreckels (who did 25 days of jail time last November...
...Author Gaddis sees it, the 20th century U.S. is a soggy butt end of western civilization, an age of publicity and duplicity in which the phonies have inherited the earth. Pronouncing a scarcely original, but nevertheless grandiose, anathema, he finds everyone corroded through the decline of love and the absence of Christian faith. Rangy in setting (New England, Greenwich Village, Paris, Spain, Italy, Central America), aswim in erudition, semi-Joycean in language, glacial in pace, irritatingly opaque in plot and character, The Recognitions is one of those eruptions of personal vision that will be argued about without being argued away...
...hierarchy of U.S. business, a big problem is the question of executive prerogatives. Who eats in the executive dining room? Who gets the best offices? And when does a man rise high enough to rate a rug on his floor? The scramble for the perquisites of rank is the butt of a thousand jokes, often leads to ludicrous situations. But to corporations themselves, the scramble is no joke. Says John D. Wright, president of Cleveland's Thompson Products, Inc.: "This involves a problem of morale, and often the little privileges that go with an office are more important...
Under the benevolent paternalism of Commissioner Bell, every team in the league encourages its players to engage in such extracurricular activities, against the inevitable day when they will be too old and battered to butt heads for a living. The Green Bay Packers' former great end, Don Hutson, owns the town's finest bowling alleys; the New York Giants' Kyle Rote peddles insurance and packaged kitchens...