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More practical ideas came from Thayer Hall roommates Carlyle I. Lincoln '95 and Josh D. Liston '95. "We need a couch," Liston said. "We've heard that the yard sales around Cambridge are probably the best deals." On a more whimsical note, the two wondered if the strips of wood on Thayer walls would support a swinging hammock...
Just before Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston fought for the heavyweight boxing crown in 1965, baritone Robert Goulet lost his preliminary bout with The Star- Spangled Banner. He made it flawlessly through the first several lines before losing his grip on the lyrics. He later blamed his Canadian upbringing for having to hum the remainder before thousands of fight fans and a closed- circuit television audience...
...since Hometown Boy Felix ("Doc") Blanchard left in the 1940s and became an All- American fullback at West Point. Hunters with shotguns combed the swamp, and a local radio station offered a million-dollar reward for the creature's capture. Fourteen-inch footprints appeared on a dusty road; Sheriff Liston Truesdale intends to send plaster casts to the FBI, eventually. He may also ask Davis to take a polygraph. But no one is in much of a hurry to solve this mystery. "I hope they never catch him," said Rhonda Knight as she hawked Lizard Man T shirts ($6.50 apiece...
With his cutting, analytical commentaries on the Vietnam war, the American presidency, the beatnik generation and the boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston, Mailer helped usher in a new writing style, the New Journalism, in which the reporter becomes an active participant in the story. According to Willie Morris, an editor of Harper's in 1968, Mailer was "creating the language" by his new use of words, sentences, and obscenities...
...tape of George Benson's mellow ballad The Greatest Love of All. Said Cooney dreamily: "Listen to the words." As his dainty hands were being double-bandaged by Trainer Victor Valle, the fighter sang along: ". . . Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be . . ." Sonny Liston skipping, sparring and sneering to Night Train...