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Curtice is a true symbol of our debt-burdened generation. Could he be the paid piper of mammon, whose honking horn lures us into the quicksand of two-toned time payments...
...deadpan, devastating comments on the show's Bristol-Myers commercials. He ordinarily treats them with a disdain that is the equivalent of a fastidious man brushing a particularly repellent caterpillar off his lapel. After one drama, Hitchcock said gloomily: "As you know, someone must always pay the piper. Fortunately, we already have such a person. This philanthropic gentleman wishes to remain anonymous, but perhaps the more discerning of our audience will be able to find a clue to his identity in the following commercial." When the sales message has ended, Hitchcock is apt to say: "Over so soon...
...opened the front door, the three students were dumbfounded. Inside, the house was bedlam. Assorted children were attempting to catch several stray dogs apparently intent upon the family's female beagle. A second glance however, was enough to reassure the tutees. Unruffled and majestic in the doorway stood Myron Piper Gilmore. Bidding them a cordial welcome, he laughed the slightly apologetic laugh of a man who, though not immune to crisis, can almost always rise above it. Perhaps for this very ability, he is now a full professor and Chairman of the History Department...
...band marched back and forth, playing sometimes in quick march tempo, at others majestically slowly. By contrast, the pipers shook the crowd with their music's wild beauty. It was the fascinating difference between palace panoply and hillside rebel yells. The pipers played a few marches and accompanied eight regimental dancers in a slow fling and a rapid, triumphant reel. After some concert pieces (Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, Arditi's // Bacio, etc.) indifferently done by the band, the dancers placed claymores in the form of a St. Andrew's cross on the floor for the warlike...
Three weeks later, Sportsmen Clifford Shinn, John Baker and Emil Johnson were flying home to Los Angeles in Shinn's Piper Cub after a Mexican fishing trip. At a point 38 air miles south of the fishing village of San Felipe on Mexico's Gulf of California (190 miles south of the border), Shinn spotted a small plane on the desert. He landed near...