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...mountain climber, and a facile writer of both fiction and philosophy. He could talk intelligently on almost any subject. When he died of a heart attack in Stockholm last week, his colleagues the world over testified to a special sense of loss. For Wiener was one of a vanishing crew-a first-rate scientist whose curiosity and skills covered a variety of disciplines...
Shot from a Box. The paparazzi are a small crew-a couple of dozen at most -and they are more bullyboys than news photographers. They lounge beneath lampposts, lips leaking cigarettes, cameras drawn like automatics. "Come see lo facio secco [When he comes out, I'll drill him]," they snarl, while waiting for their quarry to open a nightclub door. Then the paparazzi attack. These days they find more and more targets. Easter is past, celebrities are drifting down the peninsula, and hot times are ahead...
Sugar Ray came down to his lakeside training camp trailing a drab crew-a couple of beefy sparring partners and a brace of trainers, all solemn and eager to pound the champ into proper shape for next week's bout with Challenger Carmen Basilio. Only the boss himself seemed to be a hangover from the high old times when he traveled with a clowning dwarf, a personal barber, his private golf pro and the one man a boxer needs least of all: a bodyguard...
...Junior Crew-A. M. Kales (stroke), F. M. Forbes, J. S. Stillman, G. S. Derby, C. Brewer, J. C. Fairchild, B. Frothingham, S. V. Mann (bow), E. B. Day (coxswain...
...Holworthy Club Crew-A. P. Loring (stroke), N. H. Harriman, A. W. Hooper, L. F. Woodward, J. R. W. Hitchcock, M. Bull (bow), C. C. Foster (coxswain...