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...tennis team has elected Dave Fish and Chris Nielson as next year's co-captains. "I think the team made two flag choices." coach Jack Barnaby said. "It allows us to have our cake...
...house, who think that if "Dr. Percy" tried real hard, he might write something nearly as good as Love Story. Obviously unaware that any publisher in New York would swim Lake Pontchartrain for a novel by Percy, one of them recently confided that she baked him a cake with three candles when his third book was accepted for publication...
Valiance & Tenacity. Like Proust's madeleine, the tea cake that summoned up for the narrator of Remembrance of Things Past his childhood world of Combray, Follies has its touchstone of memory. The interiorized past is brought to life by an outward object, one of those old, ornate Broadway theaters. Designer Boris Aaronson has made of it a poignantly dilapidated shell where the spectral applause of a thousand opening nights hangs palpably in the air. The showplace is in the demolition phase, as are the people who enter it: chorus girls back for "a first and last reunion...
...That early lead gave me the will to win," Lonnie said. "When you're ahead you feel good. You've got something to hang on to and you can rip and roar. When you're behind, you gotta keep thinking, "Watch out, another run would be icing the cake...
...later years. Teased about the fact that his dark hair was finally beginning to thin, he could pat a balding correspondent on the head and reply: "Who are you to talk, you old bastard?" Yet he could never completely shake his waxen image as "the bridegroom on the wedding cake." He was still widely remembered that way when he died last week of a heart attack after playing 18 holes of golf in the 90° heat of Bal Harbour, Fla., his favorite winter refuge. In another week he would have been...