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...bell, Fullmer characteristically folded his arms in front of him to ward off punches and lunged forward-straight into a barrage of overhand rights and crisp left hooks that snapped his head back and opened a small cut at the edge of his left eye. Desperately, Fullmer began to elbow and butt, trying to bull Tiger into the ropes. Ruthlessly, the Nigerian Tiger mimicked him, tactic for tactic. By the ninth round, blood cascaded down the champion's left cheek. Sitting horror-stricken at ringside, four-year-old DeLaun Fullmer screamed, "Daddy! Daddy!"-and his mother cradled his head...
...humor was less in the tradition of the Miller's Tale than of the music hall, the kind that called for an elbow in the ribs and a broad wink. He: "Do you like Kipling?" She: "I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled." The double-entendre gave McGill his most successful card, good for a staggering 6,000,000 copies, but now out of print. A shriveled shrimp of a man with a huge mustache, naked but for a small towel, stands before a doctor, who tells him: "Sorry, but we will have...
...since the late Middle Ages has tapestry enjoyed such a surge of creativity. All over Europe looms are clacking busily as tapissiers. working elbow to elbow, ply the warp with bobbin and thread. In the ancient ateliers of Aubusson. 235 miles south of Paris, every loom is filled with work in progress; Gobelin in Paris, once the royal tapestry house for the kings of France but more recently a manufacturer of furniture, has put weavers back to work on modern tapestries designed by some of France's foremost artists. And in Lausanne, Switzerland, the first tapestry biennial exposition, sponsored...
...airport fence to shake at least 200 hands among some 2,500 people pressing to see him. He was in South Dakota, ostensibly, to help dedicate a new 595,000-kw. Oahe Dam powerhouse. But the real reason for his presence was right at Kennedy's elbow: Democrat George McGovern, South Dakota Congressman from 1957 to 1961, Kennedy's Food for Peace director until last month, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate. McGovern, running neck and neck with Republican Incumbent Joe Henry Bottum (who is filling the vacancy created by the death of Republican Francis Case), greeted...
...youngster he lived in a suburb and rode the commuting trains ... He rubbed elbows with a motley group of friends and neighbors and scrambled with them for a seat when the train came in . . . Public opinion flowed around him." But with success, writes Randall, "his schedule became so complex and the end of his day so unpredictable that a limousine and chauffeur became indispensable . . . Gone forever was the boisterous elbow-rubbing with friends who might hold contrary opinions...