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...probably jump the barrier and disappear." It was, of course, Lee Trevino Night at the track. "They had signs up, and mariachis, and everything," said Trevino, who actually cashed five winning $2 tickets and seemed genuinely awed by the attention he was getting. "Jeez," he said, "you win a golf tournament and, well, you're the winner of a golf tournament. But you win the Open, and you could probably run for President." His gallery finds that a good idea...
...will not open officially for another two weeks, it already has well over $30 million in advance bookings. Visitors' reactions to the courtyard range from "a fabulosity" (an Atlanta attorney) to "the eighth wonder of the world" (a Chicago businessman). Indeed, so many bowled-over guests blurt out "Jeez!"-or stronger-when they first gaze up into 21 stories of space that hotel employees have already dubbed the spot in the lobby where the full height is first glimpsed with a name of its own: Profanity Corner...
...Jeez, There's Nothing . . ." Roy Thomson is fond of saying: "We can expand indefinitely." Son of a Toronto barber, Thomson at 24 had managed to accumulate, and then blow, a small fortune in Saskatchewan land speculation. In 1929 he went to North Bay, Ont. to sell radios, Branched into broadcasting to push his product and in 1934, for $200 down and $200 a month, bought a moribund weekly called the Timmins Press. One of the unfledged publisher's first moves was to send dime to each of 100 small U.S. dailies, hen the copies came in, Thomson read...
...Jeez, I thought you'd never get here," said Sebbie as Vag slipped by the last girl's knees and sat down. The crowd rose to its feet just after Vag was seated. It had been a forty-yard pass play and Vag was screaming himself hoarse. He looked to his left at Sebbie, who was placidly sitting on his left...
...live between pictures. Rhoda liked it there with all the other homebodies, and for a while Ernie liked it too. But then everybody wanted Ernie to be a big shot, and at the same time everybody wanted him to be Marty. On the set they went around saying, "Jeez, what a real sweetie, just like Marty...