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...barefooted. He's got the wrong foot forward for a sower, and in his hand where he should have grain, it looks like he's got a cannonball. Nobody in Nebraska ever looked like that." But of all capitol finials, none has had a sadder career than Hartford's Genius of Connecticut. When she was one year old in 1879. an ungallant Manhattan critic wrote of her: "She is the old conventional Greek woman with no clothing in particular about the upper part of her body, and a great deal more than is necessary about the lower...
...Maids & Galley Slaves. Belfast-born Canadian Novelist Brian Moore, 38, knows Ginger well; his literary career has been devoted to lives that would be sorry farces if they were not sadder truths. Moore's Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne worried an old maid's wasted years in cruel whispers. In The Feast of Lupercal, he basted a 37-year-old virgin schoolmaster who knew less of sex than his students. While its plot is more forced than forceful, The Luck of Ginger Coffey dyes its boy-man hero in the rich Moore pigments of humor, poignance and irony...
...20th century: "We had our century and we muffed it. We put Coca-Cola bottles in Old Vienna. It couldn't be sadder...
...Kiphuth was in his accustomed spot at poolside as his charges walloped Columbia 57-29-Yale's 176th consecutive dual-meet victory, and notable only for the fact that it surpassed Kiphuth's own earlier record of 175 consecutive victories set between 1924 and 1937. But a sadder milestone faces Kiphuth. He has reached Yale's mandatory retirement age of 68, will be forced to retire at the end of this season. Phil Moriarty. a trusted assistant for more than a quarter-century, will succeed him. To Yale swimmers, the Temple of Sweat will never be quite...
...hanger," says a Dallas retailer, "but get it on 'em and they love it because it's so comfortable!" But many shapely women shun it, say it is a fad as well as a fraud despite its "subtle sexiness." Less shapely women find they look even sadder in a sack...