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...feet wide apart to be as solid as possible, but he hit me so hard that I went right off my feet and landed on my back. That never happened to me before. Next thing I knew, he was picking me up." The New York Giants' Sam Huff says that stopping Taylor is so difficult that no amount of mayhem is unjustified. "They ought to relax the rules," complains Huff. "It's not right that you should get a penalty for piling on Taylor. You gotta pile on to keep him down...
...severest test of the novel reader is not the interior-decorating lady author whose every point is petit; nor is it the literary bedroom peeper of the huff-puff-periphrasis school ("Metaphor pounded at his temples and his heart swelled with simile"). The most egregious trier of patience is, surely, the Author Who Has Read Proust. He will send his hero into the kitchen to mix a drink, say, but sure as Remembrance of Things Past comes in seven volumes, the ice tray wall remind the hero of another, earlier ice tray, half-shrouded in the mists of memory...
...gentle a painter, George Inness was occasionally a trial. When his father, a Newark merchant, got him a job in a store, young George hid from the customers until the customers ceased to come. He worked with a map-making outfit for a while, quit in a huff, then returned and quit again. Finally, he settled down to painting, with just enough sales and help from patrons to support himself and his growing family...
...coward. He's not afraid of us, and we're not afraid of him." - Harlem's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 53, was in Europe ostensibly to study equality of opportunity for Continental women. He had in tow a couple of shapely technical advisers: Conine Huff, a former Miss U.S.A. contestant (36-24-36) and a $5,014 receptionist in his office, and Mrs. Tamara J. Wall, a divorcee, who is a $9,000 staffer on his House Education and Labor Committee. In Paris, Powell established his research headquarters at the fashionable Crillon hotel. In Greece...
...Kennedy's sister, had taken on a marvelous fun assignment from McCall's to cover the collections. In haughty displeasure, Couturier Hubert de Givenchy declared that that made her a member of the "working press," barred her from his showing. Lee stalked off to Ravello in a huff. "It couldn't matter less," said she. "I haven't been buying his clothes; I've been wearing St. Laurent's." She was not telling Givenchy anything...