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...lines unnecessary. But there are some new toys. Samples: ¶ A wooden penguin which continually dunks its beak into a glass of water. (The secret: a reaction between the water and chemicals inside the bird.) ¶ The Skweez-Me Boxers, a couple of gangling woodenheads who fight and flop in their little wooden ring through manipulation of the base. ¶ A dart game in which plastic bombs are dropped when trigger releases in model planes are hit. ¶ A wind-up car that turns corners, reverses, and parks itself...
...Said Shaw: "When one is very old, as I am . . . your legs give in before your head does. Consequently you're always tumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week . . . and . . . it was perfectly plain that if I were to address you in person I should flop from time to time." In bed, he happily posed for photographers (see cut), assured the world: "This is not my deathbed...
...Glittering Notoriety. Yet he was no flop. Before he was 30 he had risen to the post of supply commissary in the Grand Army, and served as military governor of Brunswick in occupied Prussia (he took his pen name from the little German town of Stendal). He returned to France a member of "that hierarchy of five or six hundred top officials through whom the Empire was ruled...
...studied chemical engineering and played soccer. "It was my second year when a ballerina there made a proposition for me to be her partner in an acrobatic dance," says Youskevitch. They were a success in Yugoslavia, so they went to Paris. "We did couple concerts. There we're flop. Then the ballerina had to go home. I think it was her husband or something...
Those who stayed away missed seeing the three "big names" flop. Down & out in the first round went favored Frank ("Muscles") Stranahan, who had beaten the pros several times. Next day finished off the other two: Bud Ward, winner of the last U.S. Amateur in 1941, and out-of-practice Gary Middlecoff, an Army dentist who is regarded by golf's wise man, Walter Hagen, as "potentially the best hitter of the ball I've ever seen, pros not excepted." The finalists were tall Ted Bishop, a reformed pro* from Dedham, Mass., and a sawed-off Californian with...