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...CLASSMATE lunged frantically into the carpeted splendor of the Essex Country Club locker room, just in time to pitch the blending of a New England boiled lobster, a day's worth of bloody marys, gin and tonics, and scotch-on-the-rocks, and a schedule of tennis, golf, and after-dinner dancing squarely into the hopper. At first, he only groaned; his hands anchored to the enamel circle, he prayed for his heart to fall back into first without tearing out the transmission. And then he began with methodic attention to wipe from his face the vomit and sweat...
BOSTON-Frank "the Hulk" Howard parked one in the net just below the Gilbey's Gin sign, and the Washington Senators were just getting started. More Nats buzzed the bases. Boston Red Sox starter Bill Lee had let in five runs before Eddie "the Fox" Kasko could find the number to his bullpen. Maybe it would rain...
...national prominence. Emmet Till, a 14 year old child from Chicago who had gone South to visit relatives, was kidnapped in August of 1955 by white men who beat his body into mutilation, shot him through the head, and then tied him to the wheel of a cotton gin and dropped him into the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. The two men who were tried testified at the trial-at which black reporters were segregated-that Till had whistled at a white woman. They were acquitted; however neither the symbolism of the murder act itself nor that of the conduct...
...most amazing Krause episodes unfolded two years ago at the Casablanca. Cahalan took him there and bought him a gin and tonic. When Krause finished it, he threw the glass over his shoulder and broke it, Cahalan recalls. He went through four more drinks-and four more glasses-before Cahalan escorted him out the door. Merritt, however, prefers to talk about the many times when Krause has been an inspiration to the people around him. At this year's Easterns, for instance, when Villanova's Tom Aretz was officially relegated from an obvious first to fifth because he failed...
...dramatic situation. A grandmother at 66, she lives in Bury Saint Edmunds, the ancient market town where she was born, in a Manderley-size house whose architecture manages to combine Tudor, Queen Anne and Georgian periods. There is a Rolls in the garage, but the author insists: "Except for gin and cigarettes, I could live on a pound a week...