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...patiently drilled his musicians for the day when he could talk his neighbors, the New York Philharmonic, into a friendly match. So there he was zinging in the first ball while Umpire Skitch Henderson scrutinized his style. Even though the Philharmonic had a ringer in sometime triangle player George Plimpton, Stokowski's sluggers drummed out a 15-10 victory. "They're younger," allowed a Philharmonic musician. Not so, snapped the maestro: "When we play a game...
...facetious and sometimes brilliantly witty, The The Lampoon was recently acclaimed for its Time and Playboy parodies and for Alligator, a parody of the James Bond spy stories. The Harvard Lampoon, has always suffered from irregular health, even during the years it nurtured writers like John Updike and George Plimpton. But in the past year and a half it has shown a marked decline, and its recent extensive exploration of America taxed it irreperably...
Married. George Plimpton, dervish of the Manhattan whirl, sometime author and would-be athlete, who pitched against baseball's All-Stars, quarterbacked the Detroit Lions and boxed against Archie Moore, but couldn't get himself to the altar until he was 41; and Freddy Espy, 26, Manhattan photo-studio assistant, a petite, slightly bewildered blonde whom he met at a party in 1963; in Manhattan. Considering the wait, George was in a positive sprint. Poor Freddy didn't find out until 10:30 a.m., seven hours before her wedding. Peter Duchin's wife, Cheray, who fixed...
...same way that other little boys wanted to be George Plimpton or Bob Dylan, there have been several times when I wished I could be Andy Warhol when I grew up. Not only did he make it big in New York's arty circles, but he got to use his name to do an exciting experimentation with every medium he could touch. Everything he does (exhibiting six huge self-portraits at Expo 67, or dying his hair silver, or even sending someone who looks like his twin to do a lecture tour for him) is designed to test our sensibilities...
...more, gives a speech or, on rare occasion, throws or attends a party. He was perhaps the most visible guest at Truman Capote's lavish bal masque in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in 1966, dancing for a while with a candelabrum, then tossing it around, quarterback style, with George Plimpton. "I would say," says Capote, "that he was rather flamboyant...