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...freezing. Who's got a drink?" said one of the men. Virtually everyone in the room had a glass in his hand, but the trio stood there for a moment without even getting a reply. Finally, a Dartmouth student standing near the door reluctantly handed a flask to one of the men. He took a drink from it, passed it to his companions, and then introduced himself as a movie producer in town to make a Cinemascope short on the Carnival. The redhead, he said, was named Charlotte. Gardner, and the other man--the one just now taking a drink...
...flask-owner was momentarily startled, but managed to stutter: "Are you the Budd Schulberg?" He managed to stutter it four or five times, in fact, before he was satisfied that the man who had just drunk form his flask was Budd Schulberg, had indeed written The Disenchanted and On the Waterfront, was currently planning tow rite a story on the Carnival for Sports Illustrated, and had dropped in to visit his old fraternity...
...with this remark the coach clenched his fist, took a long pull from his flask, and started to enter the locker room. "Anything else, Coach?" I asked...
Cold beyond help of padded clothing or any flask of liquid warmth, a hunter can still come alive to the heart-moving sight of "White Wavys" (snow geese) settling into range or the whisper of duck wings in the reeds just before the birds take off. Last week, as wintering waterfowl beat their way south, hunting seasons were opening along the ancient flyways: the Atlantic seaboard, the Pacific and mountain states, down the Mississippi Valley and south across the Great Plains. Everywhere the birds stopped, they matched wits with well-equipped adversaries. Guns belched bird shot from cramped duckboats...
...biggest jump was in mercury, which has soared over 85% from the January low of $187 for a 76-lb. flask. Last week mercury rose another $4 to $6 a flask, causing one veteran trader to complain that "the market's just plain crazy." But there was a reason: producers were not running their mines full tilt to take care of big new demands for the metal (e.g., in the atomic field) for fear that the demand would disappear while they were spending a lot of money expanding. But when the Administration recently guaranteed the producers a fixed market...