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...personality was not hypnotic. His eyes possessed no power, as the myths had it. Hitler's skin was coarse and his mustache slightly gray. His bottom teeth were goldplated, which made Helms suspect they were false. Hitler's smile was humorless but his manner was pleasant enough. What was it about this plain man that had brought him so far, Helms wondered as Hitler talked of his hatred of Bolshevism, of the value of the party congress. Later, Helms would write: "No imagination could make anything godlike out of the ordinary mortal who chatted on that...
Tapping golf balls across a green a couple of years back, Jim Flood, 49, flipped his putter around, swung a few times and achieved pleasant results. The president and chief tinkerer of a San Diego-based golf-equipment firm retired to his shop and emerged with the Basakwerd, a putter with a head that points toward the body. It demands a square stroke of the ball that literally forces the player to use a textbook swing. Or so the theory goes. Golfers, of course, will try anything short of pool cues or ball-peen hammers to improve their putting game...
...That would work at West Point. But you try to tell someone at the Co-op and they say, "Though, that's not what I want to do.' And there's nothing you could do to enforce the rules. It frustrated me, because it could have been a very pleasant arrangement...
...victory ups the Crimson's record to 8-3-1 in the ECAC (10-4-1 overall) and makes the two-week layoff until the big showdown with Clarkson a bit more pleasant...
...Nelligan describes it, there was no flash of light when she first stood on a stage, no epiphany or dreams of glory. Just the opposite: she was comfortable. "I didn't feel elated or ecstatic, just at home." She wanted to stay in such a pleasant place-the theater, that is. In her second year, she auditioned for London's Central School of Speech and Drama, which was seeing applicants at Yale. She was accepted, but then ran into a problem: insufficient funds...