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Success is hardly assured. Circulation is still only some 145,000, and losses ran to more than $1,000,000 in the first year. But at the first birthday breakfast party in Manhattan last week, the orange juice was spiked as much with enthusiasm as with Dom Perignon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: A Year of New York | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

They have two strong, big men, Bill Schwarzkopf and Walt Esdale, and a third threat in forward Dom Calderone...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Five Bows By 18; Dotson Scores 22 | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

Bill Schwarzkopf--averaging 12 points a game--scored 28 for the winners and Dom Calderone--averaging seven--scored 24. The 6-8 center, Walt Esdale, an intimidating 240 lbs., contributed...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harvard Five Bows to Big Red; Plays Columbia Here Friday Night | 2/18/1969 | See Source »

Gorming has its full terminology. Pie is charlie brown because the latter had to have pie at every meal. Dom is chicken, after the Dominique, a particular breed. Broadie is a cow or a steak. Gano is the name of a very hard kind of apple they used to grow in the valley and, by extension, Boontling for all apples. Bacon is bowrp (a contraction of boar pig), eggs are easters, as in "If I don't shy to the sluggin' region [sleeping place] soon, I may as well set me a jeffer and gorm bowrp and casters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Harpin' Boont in Boonville | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...French workman, again mysteriously connected with a recent murder, again with a sinister power over the heroine, who is frequently disturbed by "the silent agony of her loins." In L'Amante Anglaise, he turns up as the woodcutter Alfonso-an Italian this time-who sel dom speaks, lives alone in a hut in the forest, and is thought to know more about the murder than he will admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broody Lady | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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