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...their clubhouse. Baby Love uses the roof as an escape route from police. He jumps across a yawning chasm to the next building, then he is down the stairs and away. "We be doin' this when we drunk," says Baby Love with an impish smile. A born hustler, he is slick at pool and dice. He gambles Friday nights in front of BeeGee's candy store with men who feed him chiba chiba, a Puerto Rican expression for an especially potent kind of marijuana, the reefer that zoots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brooklyn: A Wolf in $45 Sneakers | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...lost his one chance to make something of himself. A little time with Brad Stinn--the man who sold rugs to much of South House two years ago, the man who (honest!) sold used cars last summer--will convince anyone that the guy is a hustler, and, more than likely, a winner. But he has also always been an athlete, and that has been taken away from him. His health is intact--"That's the hard part about my injury, I feel fine now"--but he has lost something precious to him. After 12 years surrounded by the crowd that...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Stinn: A Hero Felled | 9/25/1981 | See Source »

...coins, a solicitation for Radcliffe women to pose nude for Playboy magazine, and a subscription blank for Bang magazine, another porno publication. This month the Crimson voted to reject a subscription ad from Screw magazine, which its representative described to us as "only a little more hard-core than Hustler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson And its Advertisers | 5/13/1981 | See Source »

Alas for his peace and quiet, he has a boyhood chum named Stoltz, a hustler determined to remobilize his old pal. He personally dices vegetables in order to provide Oblomov with an energizing diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lovers and Laziness | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...then there is Chico. Paul Chicarello, a hustler who actually still chatters in the infield, can play anywhere on a bit of talent and a lot of heart. Chico's bat is an asset no matter where he plays, so look for him to do some dh-ing if the infield clicks and stays healthy. He'll get his at bats. Also taking a turn at the plate will be freshman Ted Polich...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Harvard Baseball: Can A Young Team Repeat? | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

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