Word: duel
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...hold you through two rather unexciting scenes, but then comes "C'est Magnifique," and then a well-choreographed "Quadrille." And so it goes, up and down, all evening. Happily, the downs are not serious, and the ups are frequently glorious. A notable up is a very funny duel scene featuring Hillaire Jussac (Charles Breyer) and Boris Adzinidzinadze (Harry Knopf...
Garibaldi and Cornell's Ray Ratkowsky then commenced a real duel. Big Red threats in the fourth and sixth were erased by catcher Dick Diehl, who picked one runner off second and threw another out trying to steal third...
...even less trouble whipning their Navy counterparts in the preceding duel. Covering the course in 8:04, they ended the race four lengths ahead of the Middies, who settled for a 8:23.7 clocking...
...Brooklyn man arraigned for claiming an exemption for his mother, who had been dead for ten years. His wonderful explanation: "Mother's still alive in my heart." Such items effectively get across the idea to the taxpayer that the odds are heavily against him in his annual duel of wits with the tax collector. And so they are: the Internal Revenue Service, with 58,584 eagle-eyed workers in 1,224 offices, is by far the biggest, most efficient and most successful revenue collection agency in human history. But the U.S. taxpayer is quite a fellow himself...
...crying. Someone should have told him they don't make buildings the way they used to." Out of the squawk box on the agent's desk comes the brassy voice of Chuckles the Chipmunk (Gene Saks) to put the whammy on Murray's whimsy. The ensuing duel between man and machine may be the only known instance in which a squawk box lost a decision. In the final uproarious act Chuckles the Chipmunk does a prostrating parody of a slope-shouldered, splay-fingered humorless comic from TV's human menagerie...