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...Baseball's Joe DiMaggio, taking a breather from the pennant race, made his bow on television with the Joe DiMaggio Show (Sat. 5:30 p.m., NBC-TV), first in a weekly series for a toymaker (Lionel trains). Looking handsome and assured, the Yankee Clipper showed flashbacks of the 1947 New York-Brooklyn World Series, interviewed teammate Phil Rizzuto on playing shortstop. For the last 5 minutes, DiMaggio turned the program over to a panel of goggle-eyed admirers, seemed to enjoy himself hugely watching Rizzuto answer questions from baseball-minded youngsters. As if Hero DiMag wasn't enough...
Austen F Riggs II '48 2G and George I. Bell '48 stepped off a Pan-American clipper at 6 a.m. If all goes well, they will meet the other four student-mountaineers at a desert crossroads Friday, June...
Nova Scotia-born Joshua Slocum taught himself navigation, by hard work advanced himself to master of clipper ships. But at a time when "our proud fleet of clipper ships was an anachronism," Skipper Slocum doggedly refused to switch to steam. By the 1890s he was without a ship and facing forced retirement. He began to think of his old boyhood dream of sailing alone around the world...
...LaFlamme haircut is, according to the entrepreneurs, both natural and professional. It is low in back and done almost entirely with scissors because the management believes most barbers use the electric clipper to excess...
Clipped Voice. An effective anti-jamming device is a "de-emphasizing and pre-emphasizing clipper" developed by Herrick and his crew. It distorts the voice a little but at the same time makes it more intelligible and harder to obliterate...