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Hate Mail. Ryun's departure from competition left the field to Liquori. Asked if he missed Ryun, he said, "I don't think Wilt Chamberlain misses Bill Russell very much." But Liquori did miss the competition, if only because the pressure that buckled Ryun became "the monkey on my back." It was not too large a monkey; going into the Freedom Games, Liquori had won 27 out of his last 28 races. Ryun, in retirement, returned to school, packed on 35 lbs., and tried to forget all the hate mail that labeled him a "quitter." A year...
...wife, as Mrs. Jones skillfully mars the word Kuddle with her paddle. In Delaware, Jones accidentally splits his wife's scalp with an anchor, and later nearly comes to grief against a drawbridge as a guest on a Chinese junk manned by incompetents and flying a masturbating pet monkey from its masthead...
...like currants into a doughy Slavic mask, pale from weeks in steerage-streamed through Ellis Island. Add shades, a black jacket and dyed silver hair and you have America's perverse Huck Finn, son of Mrs. Julia Warhola from Mikova, Czechoslovakia-a face that, after Picasso's monkey visage, is perhaps the most instantly recognizable in art today...
Last Saturday at the Adams Cup, Navy threw an unexpected monkey wrench into the gears of the usually domineering Penn and Harvard crews. So this week, in an effort to recapture the intercollegiate rowing crown, Ted Nash and Harry Parker have pulled all the stops in preparation for the showdown at Saturday's Eastern Sprints...
...buyers are urged to try their favorite mixed drinks under a heady assortment of new names. Thus, using a base of Frost 8/80, a Bloody Mary becomes a Diamond Lil; a Manhattan, a Great White Hope; a Daiquiri, an Igloo; a Martini, a Moby Dick; and a Screwdriver, a Monkey Wrench. The new whisky, it seems, is versatile enough to masquerade as gin, vodka or even...