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...little farther on stands a house that at one point in the battle served as the command post for a Marine company. A batch of tired newspapermen, including Greenway, rested there one night during the fighting and someone found a bottle of whisky and passed it around. The owner of the house is back now and, when told about the bottle, she smiles: "I suspected it was the Marines, but I didn't mind," she says. "The ARVN paratroopers took everything, you know. They came around with great sacks and took my husband's clothes, his shirts...
...Like Eckert, referred to as the "Unknown Soldier" during his three years in the job, Kuhn was a compromise choice. Caught in a squeeze play between Mike Burke, president of the New York Yankees, and Charles ("Chub") Feeney, vice president of the San Francisco Giants, the squabbling owners surprised themselves by deciding unanimously on Pinch Hitter Kuhn on the first vote. Said Chicago White Sox Owner Arthur Allyn: "The two leagues have been feuding for so long I didn't think we could even agree on the sun rising in the east...
Such incidents abound, lively as rab bits, in Fetishism: Pets and Their People in the Western World (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $5.95). Author Kath leen Szasz tells of the great Dane that came to its owner's wedding in top hat and, of course, tails; of the New York City dog whose owner listed him in the phone book, "in case his friends want ed to telephone him"; of the pair of Saint Bernards that follow their master everywhere - in their own chauffeured station wagon. But there is little glee in the telling. Author Szasz, 56, a Hungarian-born translator...
...telephone link-up between Simpson in Los Angeles and Bills Owner Ralph Wilson in Buffalo, the Heisman Trophy winner, who has seen snow only twice in his life, asked how the weather was. "It's a beautiful clear day," replied Wilson, tactfully neglecting to mention that it was 4° above zero. When Columbia Quarterback Marty Domres learned that he was the first-round choice of the San Diego Chargers, he burbled: "They sent me a brochure last week. Do you know the lowest temperature they had last year was in January...
...world's second tallest, the 1,107-ft.-high skyscraper* is designed, in effect, as an apartment house atop an office building. A forerunner of the multipurpose "vertical city" of the future, it also looks like a financial winner. As the first tenant moved in last week, the owner, Boston-based John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., predicted that by next year the building will be producing a "respectable return" of about $7.5 million annually on the company's $95 million investment...