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When he died last week in Parkland Hospital-where both Kennedy and Oswald died-Ruby was a pathetically shrunken caricature of the swaggering bully boy who had worshiped the "beautiful people" and spent his life wishing he were one of them. The lights that used to shine on the posters of his strippers-Little Lynn, Tammi, Penny Dollar-are still outside the Carousel Club, but they burned out long ago, and Ruby's cherished nightspot is out of business; the space has been rented by the Dallas Police Athletic League as a gymnasium for underprivileged kids...
...high, braced between uprights. A cool piece of pure structure, the object has all the contemplative imagery of an I beam, but it has an inner electronic life. The narrow six-inch gap between the aluminum beams is brightly lit by hidden sodium-vapor lamps that shine on electric eyes staring up through pencil-sized holes in the bottom beam...
...Soon the women followed suit, long before the magical hour of midnight. While the bands alternated rock 'n' roll and pop tunes, the favorite sport became people watching, until the question arose, what next? With no climax in sight and no single star to shine, part of the answer was 450 bottles of nonvintage Taittinger champagne. Paris Review Editor George Plimpton began throwing slow-motion forward passes with a napkin to Receiver John Kenneth Galbraith, Lynda Bird danced on and on with Actor Roddy McDowall, and Frank Sinatra and Mia drifted out to his favorite West Side...
...about the racquet-tailed drongo, and the mudskipper, a hippopotamus-shaped fish that likes to skitter across mud flats and climb mangrove roots? Or the mallee fowl, which assiduously builds an incubator for its eggs and keeps the temperature inside at a steady 95°, come rain or shine? Curious specimens these, but Naturalist Gerald Durrell is only reporting what he sees, and reporting it with grace and an infectious sense of wonderment...
...angel of the Lord caused his countenance to shine upon Jonathan, "For thou to lose were like unto passing a needle through the eye of a camel, possible but extremely difficult." Jonathan was mightily glad at this and raised a joyous shout unto the Lord...