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...Friendly Paw. When U.C.L.A. set out in 1946 to build a new school from the ground up, it tapped Stafford Warren, a great bear of a man (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) with a disarmingly friendly right paw. He had completed 20 years on the faculty of the University of Rochester Medical School, had spent three years as health guardian of the people involved in atomic-energy work from Los Alamos to Bikini...
...Island. A soldier of fortune who played his crafty hand against England for more than 40 years, Duquesne dated his checkered career as international intriguer back to the Boer War (1899-1902). A cool, cunning poseur, he signed his reports to Germany with a rubber-stamp cat's paw, claimed to have plotted the sinking (1916) of Lord Kitchener's cruiser Hampshire. Chief G-man J. Edgar Hoover called his concerted FBI swoop (in 1941) on Duquesne's New York City mob the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history...
Bill was no ace on offense, but he was good enough. His teammates would purposely fire flat, fast shots that should have bounced off the backboard for sure misses, then Bill would move over, stick his big paw up like a second backboard, and tap the rebound in. The technique was so exasperating that rival coaches wrote a new "Russell rule" into the game-they widened the free-throw lane to 12 ft. so that Bill would have to stay farther out of basket-hanging range...
Once, playing first base, he shoved his big right paw into his hip pocket for a plug of chewing tobacco. Sam McMackin, the Paterson pitcher, went into his windup. Honus shouted for time; he waved his gloved hand and jumped wildly to attract Mc-Mackin's attention. McMackin pitched anyway. The batter grounded to short...
...called before a committee investigating anything. Author Mailer seems to have a bad case of it. His account of the interrogation by a pair of foul-mouthed goons in the hire of the "Subversive Committee" is calculated to frighten little children. It is bad enough for Mailer to paw every bed on the coast without finding Senator McCarthy underneath...