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Imitation Surf. With close harmony and wordless rhythm, Norman Kaye and Frankie Ross cushion Mary Kaye's wailing obbligato, producing a pleasant blend of sound that may sometimes suggest the Andrews sisters doing a Pepsodent commercial; but it is just the sort of thinkproof entertainment that gamblers crave. The trio specializes in old standards (Heartaches, And the Angels Sing), and as an extra fail-safe against boredom, Frankie Ross often makes joking commentaries on the lyrics. His gags may not be immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into...
...Motors. But he adjusted poorly to retirement, restlessly moved from California to Nevada and then back to his native Georgia. "You cannot eat baseball and sleep baseball and study baseball year after year and then just stop like that," he once explained. "It's in the bloodstream. You crave it. You can't get along without...
Like everyone else, students crave clear signs of their worth, signs which are both self-reassuring and impressive to others. In college, such signs primarily take the form of grades, Averages are calculated and records kept. For eager parents, over-worked teachers, curious friends, even for the student himself, these grades are the measure of his success--and in senior year, the record is sent off to fellowship committees and prospective employers. According to its authoritative testimony, parents praise or scold, committees grant or withhold, so that even if grades served only as a report to others, the record would...
Tackle Darwin Wile said that many players like himself crave for spring workouts of one sort or another -- "We work out anyway. It might as well be on football." Many players agreed that if the league is to be on a par with other conferences, spring football must be reinstated. Ivy football was called "out-rate," "sloppy...
Last Words. Khrushchev sobered. His final words were an apology. "Goodbye," he said. "I crave your indulgence for occasionally speaking out of turn. I offended the delegate from the Philippines. He offended me. He is an old parliamentarian and I am a young one. Nepal, too, gave us good lessons in parliamentarianism. By the way, is there a Parliament in Nepal? I will have to look it up in my geography book when I get home. But this is not relevant. Goodbye. Thank...