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This helps explain the remarkable fact that a man who boasted that he did not know "any more about theology than a jack rabbit knows about pingpong" should have drawn the greatest congregations in history. In the days before radio had disembodied the audience, 100 million Americans came "in person" to hear Billy Sunday. He "saved" a million of them, at the cost, he said, of $2 a soul...
First there were 39. They were tense, hopeful young men and women who felt the strings at their fingertips and the music in their heads even as they played pingpong or chatted during brief recreation periods. As the Concours Musical International got under way in Brussels, the most promising violinists of 16 countries faced a grueling three-week series of tests that would separate the Menuhins from the mice...
...most aggressive guy at pingpong will be an aggressive fighter. An aggressive fighter is a good fighter...
...picks numbered pingpong balls out of a big plastic bowl. As he calls out each number, his assistant ("Miss Marco") posts the number on a giant Marco card on the wall. When a line is filled, the M.C. calls it a game and announces a special phone number (different for each game to avoid jamming circuits). Viewers call in if they think they have won, are kept hanging on the line until their cards are checked, then are announced as winners. (Some first-night prizes: a TV set, a dishwasher, a trip for two to Hawaii...
Metaphysical Pingpong. Modern Italian Short Stories, compiled by Marc Slonim, is saturated with what Critic Cyril Connolly once called "the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Serving up life as if it were a huge platter of prosciutto and melon, the Italian authors offer highly palatable reading on such subjects as the folly of an old fool in love (Pratolini's A Mistress of Twenty, Italo Svevo's This Indolence of Mine), the dark rapture of revenge (Cesare...