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...faltered only in the eventful third frame. Mouse Kasarjian led off by knocking a long triple to right center which centerfielder Bill Dickson reached but failed to hold. After Brigham had struck out, Tom Bergantino tapped a slow roller down the third base line, and Kasarjian just beat the throw to the plate with a head-first slide...
...frozen by a strobe light, whipped their bodies into angles few Western dancers would even attempt. In Polyanka (The Meadow), files of dancers snaked across the stage in a sinuous blur of speed, hurled past one another in a complex tracery. Partisans had the black-cloaked dancers gliding in roller-smooth imitation of horsemen on patrol; Soccer sent them cartwheeling in comic, splay-fingered lunges for an imaginary ball...
...months they had suspected that he was something more. "I've seen the act in vaudeville," said awed ex-Vaudevillian Charley Foy. "It's two guys on roller skates." Chimed in a breed-improver named Georgie Jessel: "His name isn't Sullivan at all. He's Silky Solomon. I knew him in Philadelphia...
...popeyed, teen-age following in Britain has boosted his take to $5,000 a week and given him a taste of the good posh life he never knew back in London's Bermondsey slums. At 21, Tommy is Britain's first homegrown rock 'n' roller. He appears before his public with his pipestem legs encased in garish blue pants, with embroidered silver guitars running down the seams. Tommy goes through all the required hip swivelings and head bobbings as he emits his spasmodic love calls...
...Kevin Roller is a fat, lowborn lecher who has piled up a smelly fortune publishing obscene comic books and now has bought into the respectable but slipping Primrose Press. Is there a Kevin Roller on Manhattan's publishers' row? He is, at worst, a composite: traits of his career can be spotted in several existing New York publishing firms. Similarly, Tony Thompson-the passionate editor with a winetaster's nose for genius and a mixed-up love life-recalls bits and pieces of several real-life editors' personal histories. The same goes for Gerald Primrose...