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Before the freshman race, McCurdy advised his runners, "When in doubt, sprint." All seven of them, as if connected by a rope, dashed to the finish line within sixteen seconds of each other...
...century, everyone who was not just an everyone dropped in. J. Edgar Hoover, Joan Crawford, Brenda Frazier, Rocky Marciano, Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, George Jean Nathan, Mary Martin, Tommy Manville, James Farley, Tallulah Bankhead, a freshman Congressman named Jack Kennedy-all came to be swept past the velvet rope...
...life it describes. Jim McCauley wrote as he talked, and he talked Texas with a wild and wheezy wit that makes these pages twang as they turn, and sounds like Will Rogers when he still smelled of horse. His story is oral literature at its best. Holler Calf Rope. "It was natural for me to be mean," McCauley confesses contentedly, and at 14 he was much too mean for East Texas. One day he tangled with an older and stronger boy. "I was about ready to holler calf rope when his knife fell out of his pocket. I slammed...
...currently laying the foundations of insurgency in northeast Thailand. Among primitive hill tribes such as the Lahu, Peking has sent native cadres trained in China to spread the word of a new messiah. One savior is already at work among the Lahu, claiming to possess a "magic hammer, magic rope and magic knife" with which he can kill all enemies, even if they number "as many as the sesame seeds in three baskets." Peking's most formidable source of subversion is the 15 million "overseas" Chinese, who dominate much of the trade and commerce of non-Communist Asia...
...adventure playground." Instead of flat asphalt, the lot ideally should have hills, grass and puddles. Its main features are: 1) a central pavilion where young children could keep out of the rain during the day and teen-agers could hold meetings at night, and 2) enough lumber, bricks, rope, pipes, hammers and nails to keep the kids busy. With a minimum of supervision, they would build tree houses, hideaways, swings-or just mud castles-and cook their own meals over an outdoor fire...