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Flutie is starting to feel like a Bear. "I was never a Chicago fan. I mean, I didn't even know all the names. I knew Walter Payton's, of course. But I had to be introduced to (Defensive End) Dan Hampton." For turning the wrong way on a hand-off and missing an open receiver in the end zone, Flutie was toasted by his teammates with choke signs all around. But the spirit was amazingly warm. "When I first came into the huddle, everyone's head kind of popped up, and they all smiled as if to say, 'Here...
...walls became festooned with ecumenical snapshots of the great and the Grossinger: Jack Benny, Robert Kennedy, Lionel Hampton, Jackie Robinson, Terence Cardinal Cooke, Alan Alda, Yogi Berra, Nelson Rockefeller, Ralph Bunche, Eleanor Roosevelt. The 800-acre complex had its own post office (Grossinger, N.Y.), 600 rooms, a l,700-seat dining area, a $7 million annual gross. Its dancing masters Tony and Lucille introduced the mambo to the U.S. Jennie appeared on This Is Your Life...
...buried like Pompeii, along with Sargent's own reputation, beneath the ash and rubble of World War I. Of course, he had to be revived. In Reagan's America, you cannot keep a good courtier down. Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton give us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroiding, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent. And the public that liked Upstairs, Downstairs is going to like him -- a thought that may not have been...
...Binghamton, N.Y. Hitched to the train was the Clover Colony, a perfectly restored Pullman. Thorpe had a couple of whiskey sours while watching the Delaware Water Gap recede from the car's veranda. "It was a soul-stirring sight," he says. The next year he bought the Hampton Roads, a car with two staterooms, observation room, kitchen pantry and crew's quarters. He sold it last year, but missed it so much that he bought another much like it, and now owns five other cars, including a Union Pacific diner. Given ten days' notice, Amtrak is happy to move...
Thus it came as a shock last week when a fire tore through Hampton Court, destroying several staterooms. Queen Elizabeth hurried to the scene to inspect the damage. Some $197,000 worth of royal possessions had been harmed, although a salvage team saved about 250 paintings...