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...Cozza said afterwards. "You've got to give Andy a beck of a lot of credit. He calls the defensive signals and keeps everyone on their toes out there: he's done a whale of a job as a linebacker and as our captain." Coe has also won the coin toss six times...
...started when Princeton won the toss of the coin. On the first drive. MacBean, Moore, and Brian MeCullough methodically ran for yard after yard before Moore, who had scored a record five touchdowns, here two years ago, ran six yards-for the first points of the day. Arnie Hother kicked the first of six conversion points...
...need," says Oldenburg, "is for something to stick in my mind. Like Henry Miller's nose. It has a strange, puffy quality. Then it begins to work within a scheme of resemblances. The nose metamorphoses into a fireplug; the plug into a coin phone box; the phone into a car." Once, just to discover exactly what did happen to a banana's shape when it was being eaten, Oldenburg made five banana shapes out of canvas, filled them with plaster, peeled the "skin" and bit them all down to varying sizes. "I spit the plaster out," he says...
...second largest in the Bell System. At a hearing called by the State Public Service Commission to investigate complaints of poor service, witnesses railed about everything from Manhattan's grossly overloaded Plaza 8 exchange to pay telephones in which the only working parts seem to be the coin slots. William Payson, president of the advertising firm of Avery, Hand & Co., said that two of his company's lines were apparently disconnected by mistake and were still not repaired after a month despite daily calls to telephone company offices. To call attention to its plight, his company bought...
...remarkable creation within this workmanlike and well-modulated narrative is the character of Pierce. Steadfastly carrying a belief in the heroic pattern of life "like a shiny coin in his pocket," he represents a Hemingway-esque hero as seen through a Fitzgerald lens. His relationship with Ben is something far more complex than a simple boy-meets-boy story. As Pierce's wife observes to Ben just before the denouement: "What a curious pair you are, you two. I used to think the relationships between women were complicated, but they're nothing to what goes on between...