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...went, Russians gathered to stare, creating traffic jams. Traffic was blocked for a mile when 1,000 Russians surrounded Earl Jackson (who alternates as Sportin' Life) and Helen Thigpen (Serena), out for a stroll, with Jackson wearing cowboy boots, an Argentine nutria coat and hat, and custom-made pigskin gloves equipped with four holes through which his six emerald-and-diamond rings glittered...
...outfit that, for once, really stunned fashionabobs. Her arresting getup: a heavy, goblin-style hat, a fur-collared, knee-length cloth coat with mannish lapels, a dress of another material but with black buttons matching the coat's, shoes and handbag in suede, the whole incongruously teamed with pigskin gloves, a pearl necklace. Polled for their views, the fashion experts, all insisting on anonymity, gasped politely at Margaret's rebellion. Said one: "A strange blend." Another: "It's daring ..." A third: "Extraordinary, to say the least ..." Oblivious to the stir she was making, Margaret was aces...
...fast in a close race for the Western Conference championship. Coach Halas is satisfied at last. He is ready to step down and devote more time to his other interests?real estate, oil wells, a laundry and a mail-order house. But Millionaire Halas will never get over his pigskin heart. "You know," he said sadly last week, "there is no greater thrill in life for me than winning a National League game. Other men may get theirs from liquor, or dope, or girls or golf. For me, nothing can equal winning a football game...
Originality is seldom wasted in poking fun at competitive athletics, but going on the assumption that the only good joke is an old one, the Lampoon's Harvard-Yale Game issue kicks the Old Grad and the pigskin squarely and sometimes humorously. Eighteen photographs supplement the parody on sport sidelights and interviews with Grand Old Men of Football. Perhaps Lampy's switch to photography is a last gasp effort to beat the cartoon nemesis--it may not succeed...
...pigskin more precious than gold...