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...England is not quite so furiously competitive as it is in New York or the middle west. At least in Cambridge, a losing basketball team attracts nowhere near so much attention as a losing football, or even hockey, squad. No one bribes the Harvard quintet to lose games or "shave" points...
...reproduction was excellent, striking and only faintly phony. The Dodgers and Boston Braves all came out as spectacularly beauteous critters, except for [Dodger Catcher] Roy Campanella, who had neglected to shave. The athletes looked only a wee bit too athletic, being endowed with magnificently bronzed complexions glowing with not quite believable health." Noting Sportcaster Red Barber's comment on First Baseman Hodges' rippling muscles, Critic Smith added: "You could see 'em, too, although they were encased in a pelt of somewhat lovelier tone-about the shade of roast beef medium-than Gil wears in real life...
Henry Clay & Mrs. Morris. There were still other sides to Johnson. He subscribed to newspapers and magazines (including the New York Mirror), learned to play the guitar and followed local and national politics. At 12½? a shave, 25? a haircut, his shop-for white men only-sometimes took in $30 a day, and he lived accordingly. In his house were piano, guitar, flute and violins. He left a library of several hundred volumes, including French and Spanish grammars and Shakespeare. But for William Johnson, free man of color who hired white help on his farm and had many white...
...which was running an old chateau near Louvenciennes. At one point, the chateau's maintenance crew, all member of the French underground, left their jobs to take part in shearing off the locks of the town's women collaborators. Since Admiral Kirk had to get his daily shave, Bundy had to take charge of the chateau's ancient plumbing...
Trimmed. In Quezaltenango, Guatemala, Telegrapher Cesar Arnulfo Anleu persuaded a reluctant barber to give him a shave and haircut in exchange for his $1 national lottery ticket, which next day won the $6,000 grand prize...