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...crowd; for another, what he really wanted to be was a musician. A competent piano and accordion player already, he hopes "to pick up some day in the musical comedy composing field where Cole Porter and Irving Berlin leave off." But with his long fingers Tony Lavelli could flick basketballs through hoops better than anybody in the collegiate game...
There was nothing wrong with what the public liked. Old Models was painted with super-photographic realism and depth perception, qualities in Harnett which experts acknowledge and admire too. More than one visitor absently tried to flick the dust off its violin. Breaking the Home Ties, though as bluntly aimed to draw tears as a punch in the eye, is nevertheless an expertly painted scene of the young man's departure for the big city. When first shown, at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893, visitors wore out three carpets in the rush to admire...
...weight in wild boars. In the U.S., until recently, boxers were as rare as giraffes. Even 16 years ago, says one breeder, "you could lead all the boxers in the country into Times Square, say 'scat,' and they'd have been out of sight in the flick of your finger." Now, still good-natured but also smartly fashionable, some 75,000 boxers (costing up to $5,000 per pup) are on leash in the 48 states...
...endless card game called Schafskopf. In the Rathskellar (see cut) of the $2,650,000 Memorial Union, one of the few places on any U.S. campus where 3.2 beer is sold, the jukebox blared Slow Boat to China. A waiter deftly scooped the head off three beers with one flick; a lone engineer, studying in a corner, made a quick calculation on his slide rule; and a tired-looking veteran's wife smacked her squalling youngster smartly on his bottom. Alumnus John Muir wouldn't have recognized the old place...
...Gene Kelly is D'Artagnan, and what a D'Artagnan! He calmly scales a castle rampart at night, casually rips down whole sets of draperies with a flick of his wrist, hefts a 500-pound bronze statue and chucks it at half a dozen charging varlets--and then springs up a tavern wall to help a friend in danger. In the arms of evil Lady de Turner, he shows that he's just a simple country boy at heart...