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...discuss the meeting with reporters but talked freely about his battered hip, which he said he had banged against the edge of his swimming pool at his South Carolina estate. How had it happened? "When you are 85," responded Bernie Baruch sagely, "don't try a back flip...
Throughout the first half of the varsity contest a flip of the coin would have been as good as anybody's guess as to the game's outcome, for at the half the Green was leading 6-5. Near the end of the third quarter, however, John Ogden, star Crimson goalie, was struck by a loose Dartmouth lacrosse stick and had to leave the game...
...sentiment is now considered silly, and the overdone speeches fully contribute to the show. Stephen Bolster as the Duke and Jacqueline Crowell as his wife are a bit weak on their singing, but are sufficiently pompous in the role of aristocracy. The Duchess and her daughter, Merle Moses, flip their fans in fine precision, although a little too often. Miss Moses was nervous in the opening act last night, but is otherwise adequate. Her secret attraction is the drumboy, Bob Stern, who sings with a strong melodic voice. The old fellow who gives everyone trouble is William Cowperthwaite, the Grand...
...wind sprints, body-building exercises, clowning relays with the girls swimming in pajamas or blowing up balloons between laps, all combine to melt the teen-age fat from their hips, harden their midriffs and toughen their arms. Somehow they also find the strength to practice the fine points of flip turns and racing starts...
...song entitled "Flip, Flop and Fly" the line occurs "When I get lonely, I jump on the telephone." ON first hearing, this sentiment seems somewhat ridiculous, if not downright neurotic. You try to visualize someone stamping and kicking and jumping on the telephone because he is lonely. It just doesn't seem right. Then you think of substituting "at" for "on," and the line begins to take on new meaning. When you visualize a person "jumping at" the telephone, it is an easy step from there to the final explication, "When I am lonely, I jump up from where...