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Star from the Start. Ever since he entered the N.B.A. off the campus of Louisiana State University in 1954, the 6-ft. gin. Pettit has been a star. He has never been lower than fourth in the league scoring race, won it in the 1955-56 season, might have repeated in the past two years had he not been handicapped by a broken hand and arm fracture (he finished second in 1956-57, third last season). Key to Pettit's prowess is a one-handed jump shot that he fires from anywhere within basket range the moment...
...ketch called Daisy of Maldon, plan to do hydrographic surveys for the Admiralty, poke archaeologically at a 18th century Portuguese fort, skindive for wrecks, and test the effects of a four-man jazz combo on African ears. "Also," says Expedition Leader Anthony Churchill (no kin), "we may try distilling gin from seaweed." Oxford's Exploration Club is sending out a group which will exhaustively classify the flora and fauna in a mountain-locked Tanganyika valley...
...Gin, gin was my mother...
...later with fifty cents, half of a 3-by-5 card, nine Green Stamps, last week's New Yorker, and a hairpin. "I have discovered a new vicious cycle, a perfect closed circle of degeneration. About three glasses after I had become fully convinced of the nutritive powers of gin and tonic--a process that in itself took quite a little while--I suddenly found a cosmic abyss open beneath my feet. I had this very, very full glass, see, and I was afraid, see, that I'd spill...
...drink some more to keep it from spilling on the rug. So after awhile the glass became a pitcher, and the pitcher became a barrel, and the barrel became a hogshead, until finally I was tied in with a direct pipeline that was connected up to all the gin and tonic in the world. There I was, trying to drink up this whole enormous ocean of gin and tonic. It was a challenge...