Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only bright spot in the Cornell line-up was Dave Bliss a 5-10 senior guard who scored 23 points. Bliss scored at a phenomenal 32 per cent clip, hitting on 14 for 17 shots from the floor...
...anxious to hear what the bearded musician had been up to in retirement. Plenty, as it turned out. After two long, probing numbers on the white plastic saxophone that is his trademark, he casually broke out a violin and began sawing away with his left hand at a furious clip, torturing the strings into a chilling, whining frenzy. Then, without a word, Coleman uncased a trumpet and raged on in piercing splashes of startled, yelping notes...
...phony dramaturgy of the script and narration, F.D.R. is one more victory for F.D.R. His warmth, his charm, his wit and his arrogance are everywhere in the pictures of him. When the raw material is left alone, it is most eloquent. There is, for instance, a splendid home-movie clip of a dozen or so of his fellow polio victims, all youngsters, surrounding him and eventually inundating him in a water-polo game at Warm Springs. And there is a delightful illustration of Roosevelt's jaunty sense of perquisite as he is being piped aboard a light cruiser...
...Royal Feast" that costs $21.95 and includes two smoked pheasants, two cheeses and four jars of marinated artichoke hearts. Busiest fruit packer of all is 64-year-old "Harry & David" of Medford, Ore., whose business annually exceeds $10 million and whose corporate orders often total $25,000 at a clip...
That is only the beginning of the snob-appeal gifts. Tiffany's fastest individual seller is a sterling-silver money clip that costs $3.50. Hammacher Schlemmer offers "Worldtemp" cuff links that register centigrade temperatures on one link and Fahrenheit on the other. Honeywell's $39.95 fishing thermometer comes with 60 ft. of line and a gauge showing which fish bite best at various water temperatures. For $99.50, Abercrombie & Fitch will gift-wrap an instrument that simultaneously tells temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, time of day and day of the week. And for the man who has every thing...