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Still another duel, this one quite tangible, has shaped up between incumbent Councilor John D. Lynch and Daniel J. Hayes, a member of the School Committee with more political aspirations. Although Hayes has campaigned vigorously and vociferously, he will not have an easy time against the many years of Lynch tradition in north Cambridge...
...career was climaxed by his five-year performance as Elwood P. Dowd, the alcoholic confidant of that invisible, 6-ft. rabbit Harvey; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Santa Monica, Calif. A gentle man of deadly humor (his reply to Milton Berle's challenge to a duel of wits: "I never fight with an unarmed man"), Fay made his first theater appearance at four, by the 1920s had racked up record runs at New York's old Palace Theater, but after a series of nonsmash movies and a 1935 divorce-his third-from Actress Barbara Stanwyck...
...point, the major general is the very model of comic relief when he buries a boring ballad by aping a concert singer ineptly palming a prompt card. When the card flutters away like a leaf, he imperturbably unpockets another, finally loses his aplomb in a venomous facial duel with the orchestra...
From his earliest expatriate days, when he knew James Joyce and Gertrude Stein at Sylvia Beach's Paris bookshop, Hemingway plainly enjoyed being a celebrity among celebrities. He went fishing with Charles Ritz, the Paris hotel man, and considered fighting a duel over Ava Gardner, whose honor somebody had insulted. In Paris he invariably cultivated Georges Carpentier, the prizefighter turned saloon owner; in New York he befriended Restaurateur Toots Shor, and despite an often-expressed desire for privacy, went on the town with Gossip Columnist Leonard Lyons. He not only allowed but encouraged the world to turn him into...
...Butler inspires every upstart to an all-out effort to whip him. His third time out this season, when he burst in front at the start of the $25,000 Summer Festival Pace at Roosevelt, spectators wise in the ways of the wagon ponies strained to see the expected duel. Could the Butler's seven rivals box him in and keep him from winning? The Butler dropped back briefly at the ¼mile pole, then surged in front again. Four horses, as if working in relays, came up to challenge him, but the Butler kept his lead...