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...wacky onstage humor and macabre offstage antics have inspired the story that he is as strange as any of the characters he invents-one step away from the funny farm. For further evidence, his friends point to his house in Mamaroneck, N.Y., where in his black secret den he keeps a lonely chair which he considers his throne. "I sit in it and pretend," says he. "I pretend I'm king...
...neighboring school districts in, again, Westchester County, N.Y. (Westchester, fabled to possess in all its towns and cities the best of all possible school systems, actually runs the gamut from outstanding to abominable, and is thus a suitable area for illustration and internal comparison.) The Board of Education of Mamaroneck decided several years ago that it was time to build an addition to the high school, held meetings and forums, convinced the daily paper to carry stories on the building, and with no difficulty, managed to have the bond issue passed. When it was discovered that the original figure...
...particularly object to chrome and wild colors," says Alexander P. Gest Jr., president of the small Mitchel Oil Corp. in Mamaroneck, N.Y. "But the thing I can't stand is that you can't tell the present-day cars apart. They all look alike. I honestly can't tell a Plymouth from a Cadillac when they go by fast...
Ordained in 1927, Fenton continued to develop his kicking techniques. In 1934 he started to pass on his knowledge to boys of his parish in Ansonia, Conn, and later in Mamaroneck, N.Y. As his fame spread, he was taken on as kicking consultant by colleges from Harvard to North Carolina. His most famous pupil: North Carolina's All-American Charlie Justice, one of the game's finest quick-kickers...
...Everyone had tournament jitters and they cost San Francisco's Hawaiian-born housewife, Jacqueline Pung, the U.S.G.A. Women's Open at Mamaroneck, N.Y. When she posted a last-round 72 for an overall score of 298, she seemed to have the title won. Although 72 was her true score on the round, she had a five on her scorecard for the fourth hole, where she had actually shot a six. When the error was discovered she was disqualified. The new women's open champion: South Carolina's Betsy Rawls, who had the second best 72-hole...