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...monopoly of big-time pro hockey. Most had made it only after fighting their way up through minor-league teams. But at week's end, it looked as if Jack McCartan might join that small and select band-and what's more, do it in one single leap...
...Detroit will soon be just a swallowed Miltown. The hero pulls his thumb out of his mouth, strips to his Bermuda shorts, and shouts: "This is a job for Business Man!" He is, of course, "faster than a speeding ticker tape, more powerful than a goon squad, able to leap loopholes in a single bound." He does all this on the stage of a Chicago coffeehouse-nightclub called the Second City...
...getting only the equivalent of $20 a kilo (2.2 lbs.). The same kilo, when it reaches the Laotian capital of Vientiane, will be worth $60; at Saigon in South Viet Nam it will bring $1,000, and when it is safely put ashore in San Francisco, the value may leap to $2,000 or more...
...Even then Garry was such an accomplished gagman that a fan named F. Scott Fitzgerald came backstage and solicited his collaboration on a revue. "I was flunking high school anyway," says Moore, "so I had nothing to lose. I saw a chance to jump 16 steps in one leap...
...vaudeville comedian, after Appomattox or after Yorktown, who first used the joke during a desperate split week in Manchester or Dublin. The joke involved someone's trying to rent a cottage with a W.C. (water closet) and being misunderstood by someone else who thought that by some tortured leap of the jokemaker's imagination the letters stood for Wayside Chapel. Thus, the W.C. was nine miles from the house, could be visited only twice a week, etc. - endless possibilities. Little could the unsung, unremembered hero foresee that his creation would one day produce a major crisis...