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...Hurdler Martin Lauer, 22, knows how to get in shape. His workouts, though short, are incredibly intense. His basic technique is a series of short, full-throttle sprints broken by what he calls Laufhupser (local dialect for grasshopper), i.e., a sort of Russian balletlike leap touching chest to thighs in midair...
Only a Dream. Distribution alone is a monumental problem. In the Eastern dialect, Inuktitut's circulation is limited to some 2,000 families, so widely strewn that the magazine must eventually be carried, over months, by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Hudson's Bay traders, and dog sled; to reach Eskimos in Canada's Western north, Inuktitut will print a separate edition in the Roman characters familiar to that region. The magazine must go out in spring before the Arctic thaw, in summer after the river ice has melted, in fall before the freeze, and in winter before...
Guido & Grower. The gag had an unlikely beginning. It was born in Toots Shor's Manhattan saloon one afternoon in 1956, when Pat and a pal, Lynn Phillips, were relaxing from their jobs as time salesmen for NBCTV. They were already practiced hands at the dialect spoof. Pat had picked up a talent for mimicry from his father, a successful nightclub comic of the '30s, and he and his friend used their skill as a "sales adjunct" when they wanted to warm up prospects with a laugh or two. That afternoon in Shor's, the Andrea Doria...
Died. Octavus Roy Cohen, 67, novelist, screenwriter, playwright and magazine writer, best known for his pre-World War II Saturday Evening Post short stories about happy-go-lucky, heavy-dialect Southern Negroes such as Florian Slappey, Lawyer Evans Chew, Marshmallow Jeepers and Epic Peters; following a stroke, in Los Angeles. Cohen also wrote for the early Amos 'n' Andy radio series...
...engaged to rich and beautiful Victorine LaBranche. Keyes fans will not be disappointed as they follow Victorine along a mysterious, lumbering course. Though most of the prose consists of what one character well calls "a potful of fancy-Dan wordage," there are many stretches of an astonishing Louisiana dialect, for which Author Keyes declares herself indebted to a lady friend (who has worked for the Opelousas daily World and has an "almost infallible ear for the nuances of local speech"). "I strive to please," Novelist Keyes confesses. To a striving author, Victorine should be worth its weight in gold slippers...