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...title with the acquisition of Barry, the return of Rudy Tomjanovich, and the added playing time for guard Mike Newlin. The Spurs have awesome fans and a starting lineup to match, led by scoring champ George Gervin, but a weak bench could kill them in the stretch. Coach Bill Fitch has his Cavaliers looking steadier than ever, and that means playoffs and not much more. As for the Atlanta Hawks, a backcourt of Charlie Criss (5'7") and all American Butch Lee looks like fun, but who said this game was fun? The Jazz looks flat without Truck Robinson...
...down a guest's cleavage at a state dinner, then attempting to fish it out. Lisbon declared him persona non grata. Many lost all purpose, several died young, and a disproportionate number committed suicide. Simon's son George, for instance, bought a big-game rifle at Abercrombie & Fitch, checked into a hotel, and shot himself in the head. Pegeen Vail, Benjamin's beautiful and talented granddaughter, took an overdose of sleeping pills in Paris...
...Dick Trevor (Fred Barton). Although he can dance and belt out a song, he overacts so much that his rolling eyes begin to resemble the oranges and lemons of a one-armed bandit. His manic mechanical nature nearly ruins the number "Swiss Miss," which is cleverly choreographed (by Douglas Fitch and Nancy Tulowiecki) for Dick and Susie to move like the puppets on a Swiss cuckoo clock. Because Barton is nearly always cuckoo, the dance doesn't come off as much of a contrast--a real shame, because Barton is relaxed and debonair in later routines...
Need some new falconry equipment? An indoor treadmill to exercise your dog? An explorer's chain-mail suit guaranteed to deflect poisonous arrows? For 85 years, the place to go would have been Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch, supplier to princes and Presidents, and the self-styled "greatest sporting-goods store in the world." Alas, no longer: last week the company saddled with debts totaling nearly $8 million, gave up a 15-month struggle to reorganize under the bankruptcy laws and went into liquidation...
Following its founding in 1892 by a lawyer named Ezra Fitch and a sportsman named David Abercrombie, A & F made its name catering to the outdoor elite. It outfitted Theodore Roosevelt's African safaris and Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica, and counted among other famous customers Flyer Charles Lindbergh, Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfer Woodrow Wilson and aground Sportsman Ernest Hemingway. Yet, while it eventually expanded into a chain with branches in nine cities, A & F never adapted to modern-style retailing or to a younger, more budget-conscious generation of activists who preferred to buy from...