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...South Station, Boston, last stop, all off," the conductor shouts, and the train slows down as it passes under the State Street Bank. Downtown Boston is dark as the high-rising office buildings shut out the last rays of the sun. A billboard advertises Playboy Magazine...
Assured that the money was there, Keating talked with his clients. He caught Csonka in Los Angeles, where the fullback was judging Playboy's Bunny of the Year contest. The players agreed to go to Toronto the last weekend in March for their first meeting with Bassett. Before going, Csonka informed Miami Coach Don Shula about the trip...
...Rockies, and Ruscha's variations on the painted word-as-object, which derive from Jasper Johns, are so cute that Alloway's normal eloquence is reduced to calling them "deceptively obvious." In fact, their obviousness is not deceptive; it is just obvious. And Ramos, whose Batmen and Playboy Bunnies go as far as pop ever went in unctuous, opportunistic triviality, seems to be in the show merely to illustrate an amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial art. In 1962, at the peak of the Batman revival, Ramos got some mileage from painting the masked hero...
...track "Johnny" and shot at. When Michigan's Hazel Park ruled in 1972 that Mary and her husband, Jockey Johnny, could not both compete, Mary left Johnny and went on riding. One of the few out-of-saddle distractions she has permitted herself was a nude pose for Playboy magazine. But it was all coming together. Two weeks into the spring meeting at New York's Aqueduct, Mary for the first time ranked among the track's top ten jockeys. Only slightly set back by a five-day suspension (for careless riding and interference) last week that...
...Died. Peter Jeffrey Revson, 35, American international road racer; while test driving his Formula I UOP Shadow at the Kyalami circuit near Johannesburg, South Africa. A wealthy playboy-he was recently linked with Marjorie Wallace, the dethroned Miss World titleholder-Revson was more than a dilettante motorist. He was runner-up at the Indianapolis 500 in 1971 and won the British Grand Prix in the same year. His most recent major victories were the British and Canadian Grand Prix...