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...black man dressed incongruously in a cowboy hat and a loud Hawaiian shirt was standing near the entrance, listening to the sounds coming from within. It was George ("Kid Sheik") Colar, 74, a veteran trumpet player with a ready grin and an infectious laugh. Would he recognize me after so long? "Sheik!" The face turned, the eyes looked puzzled for an instant behind their black-rimmed glasses. Then that wonderful laugh shattered the silence...
...pretty nervous playing in the tournament--in was my first time ever really playing a game in the goal," Judge says with a grin. "It was snowing and cold, I could see pike's Peak from the goal. I remember practicing my slides in the snow...
When Brown speaks about Harvard's Economics Department, his face furrows in frustration, and he peppers his conversation with sighs and shakes of the head. Griliches, on the other hand speaks of MIT's economics department with a twinkle in his eye and an incipient grin that turns from time to time into a light chuckle...
...piece entitled "Grin and Beirut" in which the Review stated, supposedly sarcastically, that a Jewish sukkah set up at Dartmouth would not be removed until "a new Jewish dormitory" was built on the Connecticut River. Two days after the piece appeared, the sukkah was destroyed by vandals...
...lifts and lifts, and suddenly a clump of leotarded dancers inches and rolls onstage to join him, representing--incredibly--a car, white tires and all. Brown later plays a gas-meter reader whose pastime is to scare sunbathing housewives so that their bathing suit tops fall off; the conspiratorial grin with which he exits obviates any simpleminded sympathy...