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...cats and fine chicks, I want you to dig a mess of this jive. Because I want to hip you to my buddy-boy, Hollywood Al. He knows those fine hip styles you all like so much-that extra-wide knee 28, 29, 30 inches and that peg bottom way down to 14 inches-that are really a killer. . . . When you buy in Hollywood Al's Pants Shop you are buying from a hip cat who knows what it's all about because he's been around plenty...
...presents two cardinal points of good technique. "There are many unfamiliar concepts and new terms which we must grasp. I find it very helpful to peg down these unfamiliar ideas with ones I already know. Another trick which helps is what I call 'space studying'. This consists of working on one subject for a while, then taking up something else, and then going back to the original topic. Another period of time spent working on it is a good idea...
...Lanky, gable-nosed, Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings, proprietor of an elegant Madison Avenue furniture studio, is the author of a peg-legged, web-seated chair, which some fellow experts consider the finest of its kind. Robsjohn-Gibbings (pronounced the way it is spelled) has spent years fashioning tricky, glass-topped tables and elegant gadgets for the Park Avenue trade. Now he wants to design furniture for the workingman. A learned, articulate, 38-year-old U.S. citizen who settled in Manhattan in 1936, Robsjohn-Gibbings has made a careful study of furniture from Ancient Egypt to the present. "The Greeks...
...incredible. In one flashing paroxysm, he catches the ball in his gloved left hand, tucks it under his right stump, shakes the glove off, grabs the ball and throws. The second or two lost in this complicated motion are made up for by Gray's powerful and accurate peg. So far this season, no errors have been chalked against...
...same operation is repeated on the other side of the arm. After the canals heal, an ivory peg is inserted in each one, and the patient practices moving these pegs with the stump muscles. Later on, a special artificial arm, made of many interacting levers and joints enclosed in leather, is fitted to the ivory pegs...