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...prize money that he wins for best custom car at the shows (roughly $500 each time) pays most of his expenses, and he has the car booked for exhibitions almost every weekend through June. "But the real joy is building the damn thing," says Muzik, running his polish rag over a thumbprint on the body. "It sure is a beautiful machine. I don't race it too often...
...starters, the sabre squad, which many had picked to be Harvard's most effective team at the Easterns, failed miserably in the Saturday morning trials. The Crimson sabre men won only 18 out of 36 bouts to finish in a disappointing tie for sixth place with a rag-tag Navy squad, 11 substantial points behind sabre cochampions Yale and Columbia, which each grabbed 29 wins...
Each time Chou moved to a new table, he shook everyone's hand. Then a waiter would give him a warm, moist rag to wipe his hands. His right hand was injured during the Long March and is sensitive...
THIS PART OF the film is an unmitigated success. The humor is first class, the infusion of vaudeville routine ("Varsity Rag," "Blue Heaven") into this comedy of manners and madness is truly masterful, and the acting is on all sides superb. (Alister Sim is torturously funny as the horrified Bishop presiding over Jack's marriage.) The Guerney family is a living breathing caricature of the "creme de menthe" of society, and O'Toole defies description. He plays insanity at perfect pitch with absolute command of its range--from light hearted nonsense to the brink of hysteria and beyond...
...back home in Indiana. Son of a Dutch-Irish tenant farmer, he was raised in Martinsville, a town whose chief distinction, as noted in Ripley's Believe It or Not, was that its 5,200 inhabitants built a basketball fieldhouse that seated 5,520. He began with a rag ball and the proverbial peach basket nailed to the hayloft. He was an honor student and a three-time All-America at Purdue, where he financed his way by waiting on tables and taping the ankles of football players for 350 an hour. He is remembered as the "India Rubber...