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Stephen L. Higgins & wife of Sanford plopped calmly out on a Maine tidal flat, began blitzing the bivalves with a common rubber suction plunger (the kind used on a stuffed-up toilet). cIn the time it takes an uninitiated digger to gather several dozen clams, the Higgins had two bushels of them (current price: $4 a bushel...
...well as playing on some fine the ball clubs he has opposed some of the greatest players of all time, and the Chief has superlatives for every one. He calls Bronko Nagurski "the greatest plunger of all time"; Tuffy Leemans, "a real gentleman"; Mel Hein, "in a class by himself"; Ace Parker, "the greatest player in all-around ability...
...highlight of the evening for me was Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton's coda on "Black and Tan Fantasy." Nanton's plunger trombone, although sometimes exploited for comic effect, is my favorite voice in the Ellington band--especially so since Johnny Hodges has taken to playing only sentimentally, with every appearance as soloist winding up in an ever-softening fadeout. "Rockin' In Rhythm," as always, was a good, solid performance, and even Nance's fiddle couldn't mar the beauty of "Moon Mist...
With Perkins gone, Henry Lamar is without the team's most powerful plunger, best ball-handler, and best passer from the fullback slot. Paul Garrity, who will move over from tailback to replace him, is about 15 pounds lighter, and has had a year less at Harvard, which makes a big difference in performing the fullback's complicated duties...
...Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande. A veteran plunger on his stable's strains and silks (in 1927 he was allowed stable-loss tax reductions of $800,000), he placed no bets on canvases after the mid-19th Century's Edouard Manet, preferred art's more-than-three-(or even 50-) year-olds-In his colossal, correct...