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Indians have become all the rage-at Washington hearings, in fashions, on the screen (Little Big Man) and even on bestseller lists (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee). Now comes a book worthy of being another bestseller: the diary of a charming and extraordinary red man who is pushing 101. Chief Red Fox is a nephew of Crazy Horse. He has lived through both Custer's last stand and Alan Shepard's attempt to play golf on the moon. Somehow he manages a genuine appreciation for the cultures that produced both events...
...first half of his book traces the passing. It includes a chilling reconstruction of Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn and the apparently retaliatory slaughter of starving Indians at Wounded Knee 14 years later. At ten, in 1880, Red Fox was sent to the Carlisle Indian School where he began moving into the white world. Thereafter he went to sea briefly ("It was like viewing eternity in motion"), and at 23 joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. On opening night in London in 1905, part of his act was to chase a careering stagecoach...
Washauer, slated at number one in singles, underwent a knee operation for calcium deposits in January and is still questionable. Cavanagh, who would otherwise play at number two, reinsured his arm late in the hockey season...
...taped a piece of metal to his leg to keep it from bending, then attached a rigid aluminum strip to his arm to make it virtually inflexible. "As I continued to rehearse the play, though," Scott says, "I found I needed these restrictions less and less. The knee taping went during the first week's performance, then the arm. I found I had been programmed to move as though they were there, and I never had to worry about falling out of the character movements again." Scott is also a perfectionist with makeup, and he has the devotion and knowledge...
After the knee injury forced him to miss three meets, Mangrum won two key bouts at the end of the season...