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...flesh, he is good-looking, not too large, stands 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighs 188 pounds, and walks with a noticeable spring in his step. In the stands Saturday, the hymns of praise that echoed skyward every time he tied his shoelaces or adjusted his helmet were strangely reminiscent of Fenway, where the crowd blows its top every time Ted Williams gets a base on balls. Let no parallel be drawn between the two athletes themselves...
...normal jet cruising speed, which is well above 300 m.p.h., every air effect is sharply exaggerated. "A patch of rough air," said an Army pilot, "which would be slightly jostling to another plane, suddenly slams you against your belts. You thank your crash helmet for absorbing the shock when the canopy smacks downward...
Stripped of his pink sport shirt and shaded by a white pith helmet, he nevertheless found fishing a good way to sit and loaf. Loafing was his chief objective and he got a lot of it done. He kept his weight level by frequent swims off the fantail of his yacht Williamsburg (he uses a side stroke to keep his glasses dry). And he managed to do almost no work. He signed a few documents, put off until this week everything that required anything more than his signature...
...game hunter in pith helmet, khaki shorts and orange jacket stalked along the railroad platform. His prey: Princeton men, Class of 1925. His quarry was expressed by jeep or taxi to class headquarters-in a vacant lot on University Place, decked out now like a carnival site...
...hottest issues, whereupon the court and guests proceeded to Marka airfield to review Trans-Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion. Its leader, Glubb Pasha (occidental title: Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, D.S.O., O.B.E.) stood next to His Majesty on the sun-scathed reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long sword by his side. After the two-hour parade, everybody had lunch (main course: 56 whole roast sheep), while Trans-Jordan's masses launched on a three-day fete involving much shooting, soothsaying, and the consumption of vast quantities of stuffed peppers with soda...