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...mule's kick. It was the Second International Gerontological Congress, a group which is concerned with the troubles of the aging. He found his story, however, by attending a session when the venerable baseball pitcher, Satchel Paige, turned up. Correspondent Woods's report: "For two solid hours, Ole Satch held the scientists spellbound with inside tips on how he maintained his terrifying 'nuthin' ball' despite his advanced years. Samples of his anti-old age prescriptions: don't fill up on chicken livers ; don't inhale when smoking-blow it out your nose." (TIME...
...torera from Texas, who quit school to assassinate an undersized bull in a Mexican bull ring, I suggest a job in an abattoir. Ole, huera...
Dedicating the bull to her mother, the 22-year-old Texas girl took bold command. Four times she drew the bull's charges in neat pases naturales, once so narrowly that blood from his flank streaked her tight-fitting pants. "Ole, huera! [Nice going, blondie!]," yelled the crowd. Then Pat executed a series of gaoneras (passes in which the muleta is held with one hand outstretched, the other behind the back). On one rush a horn grazed and jarred her. The fans yelled as they had not yelled since the great Manolete fought years ago in Juarez...
...viewers." There seemed little danger. Groused one disgruntled member of the studio audience: "I wouldn't stand on my head for no blooming string of false pearls, I wouldn't. But give me one of those American refrigerators and I'll sing the 'ole Mikado upside down...
...past and present move at conflicting levels. Hence, after windy, uninspired love passages, O'Neill keeps writing harsh scenes that the play itself does not seem ready for. Anna is as much betrayed by the story as by Life. Both her washed-up father, cursing dat ole davil sea as a way of exonerating himself, and her lover, who should either be less Irish or more poetic, are hollow men who precipitate farce and even bathos...