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...early fifties, the avant-garde knew Jackson Pollock as a man who might come into his favorite East Hampton bar late one night, have a few drinks, and knock his fellow painter Franz Kline across the room. Folks at home knew him, thanks to Henry Luce's magazines, as "Jack the Dripper," the angry-looking young man who put canvas on the floor, slopped a little Duco paint around, added some sand and miscellaneous junk, and called the mess a painting. He seemed as full of chaos as his paintings. He smoked Camels, drank hard, then finally lost control...
...said that recruiting within the bounds of Harvard Department of Athletics policy "is like waiting for Raquel Welch to knock on your front door." The policy forbids coaches from approaching athletes until the athletes notify the Admissions Office of their interest in Harvard...
...their freedom, but stayed up talking all night, savoring the experience. As one doctor prepared for an examination of Navy Lieut. Commander Paul Galanti, a prisoner for 6½ years, the patient dropped to the floor, did 50 push ups, then walked around the room on his hands. "Knock it off, Paul," the doctor laughed. "I get your point...
...Quakers and the Crimson will probably knock each other out of contention on the 220 tartan oval, while Navy builds an insurmountable lead in the field events and watches the others fight over the more closely contested running contests...
...time importers, who are white, and bringing in their own heroin, cocaine and other drugs from Latin America or Southeast Asia. In Boston, police estimate that street sales of heroin, mainly by blacks to blacks, totaled $65 million last year. Factory owners, who buy in bulk, may knock down as much as $26,000 a week. Their distributors can earn $3,800, and the lowly pusher, often an addict, gets about $ 125 and all the smack he can shoot-about $900 worth a week at current prices. Before he was jailed, one young black hustler, beginning from scratch five years...