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When the Faure cabinet fell last February, Pinay trotted off as usual to the Gare de Lyon. He was on the way back from St. Chamond a few days later when a messenger clambered into his compartment at Dijon with President Auriol's invitation to take a fling at forming a government. He had the brashness...
This week, No. 33 trotted on to the field for his final fling. Some 22,000 fans were in the stands as Baugh ran through a series of downs, spent half an hour after the game signing autographs. Now a successful rancher with 6,355 acres in Rotan, Texas-thanks to some $300,000 earned in salaries and endorsements ("half went to Texas, half to taxes")-Sammy Baugh was altogether ready to call it quits after 16 years, the longest playing career in N.F.L. history...
...plumbing or dangling yourself over the side of a tub. Simply sit with your fanny and feet in hot water. Stand occasionally and rub what seems appropriate with a bathcloth filled with ice cubes, if you want to be real heroic and make it a "hot and cold fanny fling...
...Communism, and became a prime target of Moscow vilification ("warmonger . . . falsifier of facts"). He firmly supported the Administration's European policies (ECA, NATO). After a round of international parleys, giving Republican counsel to Democratic Secretaries of State Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson, he left bipartisan diplomacy for a fling at politics, took an appointment by Governor Thomas Dewey as interim New York Senator (June-December 1949). Running for the seat at the polls, he lost to Herbert Lehman. In 1950, the Democratic Administration drafted him again to do a job no one thought could be carried off: a Japanese peace...
...Manhattan, at 25, she was broke and developing "a perfect passion for earning money, don't care much how I earn it." A fling at acting didn't help, but soon her stories under the name of Nancy Boyd broke the pinch of poverty. By 1920 magazines were competing for her poetry: "Oh, Lud! Have you noticed how Vanity Fair is featuring me of late? They just can't seem to go to print without me. And the New Republic is writing to me in longhand begging for a crumb of verse." From that time...