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...usual, Auchincloss steers confidently through the world he knows so well. He telescopes time with delight fully gossipy character sketches and crisp vignettes. His prose is clear and judiciously cool, though his attempts to pump drama into drawing-room confrontations may lead to such awkwardness as "But Ivy's words were still written like the smoke letters of an airplane announcing a public event across the pale sky of Clara's calm...
...great goes to Ramsay, the lonely believer. He sold or traded away the malcontents who were wallowing in the disappointment and frustration of the past two seasons with the Blazers. In their place came players tailored to Big Bill's skills: quick, sure handed guards to snag his crisp outlet passes and start the fast break rolling, big, power forwards to take some of the pressure-and punishment-off Walton in the middle. The combination, tightly harnessed to set plays and team offense, has produced a balanced basketball machine that finished the regular season with an imposing...
...Jackson dead on the kitchen floor, a .22-cal. bullet wound in her stomach. Police, searching the house, soon found bizarre confirmation of the tales about her wealth. Stashed around the place, in toolboxes, drawers, a vacuum-cleaner bag and a garbage can, was some $5 million in crisp bank notes, mostly hundred-dollar bills. An investigation revealed that over a period of time, she had withdrawn at least $8 million in cash from her bank-meaning that some $3 million was missing. Some burglars, the cops concluded, had looted the house, killed Mrs. Jackson and set fire...
...Crimson scrum then took control of the game; in one instance they pushed B.U. back 30 yards. And the backs turned some crisp passing into even longer gains...
When word came that the Las Palmas Airport had been reopened, the KLM craft was still refueling, blocking the Clipper's way. Pan Am First Officer Robert Bragg radioed to KLM, asking how much longer the refueling would take. "About 35 minutes," came the crisp reply. Bragg and Grubbs measured the clearance around the KLM plane, found it inadequate to taxi past. KLM would have to take off first...