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...Roaring Lions. At his usual corner table in the Carroll Arms Hotel, during the luncheon recess, McCarthy gulped down a Manhattan, a slice of lamb and coffee. His suit coat was off, his shirt clung to him, soaked through. The going had been hot & heavy, and there was more, much more, to come...
...Navy clung to its slim lead in the second half despite an alert Crimson defense that successfully bottled up Lange and Clune. Guards Doral Sandlin and Larry Wigle7 took up the slack for the visitors with a combination of set shots and free throws...
...they start off with a genuinely promising first act. After that, things tend to halt at times, and at others to go downhill. The play's serious side, too solemn for a suspense yarn, is too superficial for anything else. To keep really alive, the play should have clung like a leech to its corpse...
...themselves each morning what they had done to further it. Amidst acclamation, he never played the hero's role. Evenings, he and his wife Paula (whom he married in Brooklyn) sat at the kitchen table eating a supper of sour cream, cheese, bread and salad. He clung to the white, open-necked shirt that is the unofficial uniform of the Israeli pioneer. Once he turned up at a Mapai meeting after a Soviet embassy reception, still clad in striped pants and morning coat, explained: "Please forgive my working clothes...
Frederika did not mind at all. She loved being allowed to ride on Florence streetcars, leaping up to give her seat to the elderly while she herself clung to a strap. Generally hatless, informally dressed and never too neat ("I don't believe Frederi-ka's seams were ever straight," said one teacher), the German princess seemed in many ways as American as her schoolmates. They called her "Freddy" and even "Fried Egg," and often gathered in her room to help her wrestle with the groaning accordion she sought to master...