Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Susan P. Levine '67 of Wolbach Hall and Great Neck, N.Y. will go to the Cornell field station in Peru...
...lousy string quartets." It is not for lack of trying. Indeed, the compulsion of amateur musicians to get together for an evening of chamber music is all but irrepressible. An Army officer's wife one day was approached by a stranger who noticed a telltale mark on her neck: "You must play the violin. Would you like to join our group?" A Boston doctor, hearing a man whistling a Mozart theme on the street, whistled back and soon had a date for duets. One desperate violinist pinned notes to trees in his neighborhood...
...punishment meted out to four deserters from an army post. They were tied up, stripped to the waist and every day for four days were given 25 lashes apiece. Then the regimental surgeon sliced off their ears. One of the victims, wiping away the blood that streamed down his neck, quipped: "This is a hell of a way, Colonel, to celebrate the Fourth of July." The colonel clapped him into a ball and chain. That night the soldier jumped into the river and drowned...
...most of them-like matadors-maintain practice rings of their own, where they train their mounts for months to anticipate each move of a zigzagging calf, to stop instantly ("sticking 'em into the ground," in rodeo talk) at the precise moment the lariat settles around the Brangus' neck...
...which means "darn cat" but nonetheless has a nice bureaucratic ring to it. Quite appropriate, since D.C. is soon to be photographed and paw-printed, and have federal investigators on his tail. They are interested because he came home wearing a wristwatch, which may have been slipped around his neck by a kidnaped lady bank teller (Grayson Hall). Suppose the teller is right in the neighborhood? Suppose a pair of psychotic holdup men (Frank Gorshin, Neville Brand) are itching to do away with her so they can leave town with their swag...