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...selecting towels, Walter Matthau trying on suits. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis recently passed through to order presents to be sent to Caroline in London. Singer Diana Ross outfits herself and her children there?by long distance from California. Basketball Star Earl Monroe may drop in to pick up some after-shave lotion?and, he says, to "see how people with money...
Adman William G. ("Turk") Jones decided he had had enough of the frenzied pace of Madison Avenue: "Learning to shave on airplanes," as he puts it. So he quit his job in Manhattan, sold his house in the suburbs and in 1946 moved his family to a farm in central Pennsylvania. Then he began to do what he had always wanted-plant trees. Jones had a green thumb, his seedlings thrived, and word of his tree farm began to spread. Consequently, after Pennsylvania passed a law in 1948 requiring strip miners to refill and replant the land they had ravaged...
...with San Diego) urged his frustrated pupil to slow his delivery. With that, Ryan started to develop a sharp curve and an effective change-up-"the only 90 m.p.h. change-up in the majors," jokes Fellow Angel Pitcher Bill Singer. Meanwhile Ryan had started using a scalpel to shave off the scar tissue and calluses on his ringers, under which blisters were forming. (To this day he spends five minutes before every start carefully trimming excess skin off the tips of his pitching fingers.) Soon the results were visible in the win column: 19 victories his first year in Anaheim...
Higginson said he feels the varsity should shave about four to six seconds off Saturday's time to establish themselves as a good crew. Competition next Saturday for the Biglin Bowl will pit the Crimson against one of the premier spollers of the year, the Technicians from downstream, Dartmouth will also be on hand for the 11 a.m. race...
...eyes of his amiably foul-mouthed manager, Al Braverman, and his trainer, Bill Prezant. During the long workouts, Wepner constantly dreamed of dropping Ali to the mat with a battering-ram right to the champ's unblemished chin; Braverman had visions of a Wepner TV commercial endorsing a shaving cream that gave even the world champion Bayonne Bleeder a smooth, nick-free shave. Prophesied Trainer Prezant: "This will be the biggest surprise in boxing." And Wepner's second wife Phyllis, a post office clerk, announced that she would like a Mercedes-Benz if her husband...