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Born in a taxicab in Tennessee, Slowest cab that you ever did see, Warmed up his bottle and he took him a nip - He didn't even leave the driver a tip! Davy, Davy Crewcut, the cat with the coonskin...
...COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, by Warren Eyster (597 pp.; Random House; $4.95), is the slowest-starting melodrama since John Hersey covered umpteen pages before breaching The Wall. To fill his big picture of violence in a strike-torn Pennsylvania steel town, Novelist Warren Eyster starts 50 years back and paints all the ancestors as carefully as the main figures who finally dominate the canvas. Never relenting for so much as a chuckle, Novelist Eyster fastens his eye on personal as well as social change ("Irene had become a better person. She appeared to have learned that sacrifice was not necessarily...
...Crimson medley relay team of Alan Rapperport, Sigo Falk, and Jim Jorgensen didn't reach the finals in the event. The slowest qualifying time was 2:53.6, but the varsity couldn't duplicate its fastest chalking of the season, 2:53.1 against Yale...
...Knights of Columbus Athletic Meet in Madison Square Garden, Defending Champion Mai Whitfield was nosed out by Villanova Alumnus Joe Gaffney in the 600-yd. run, and another ex-titleholder proved a disappointment even while winning. Miler Wes Santee lazed home in 4:10.4, one of the slowest times of the winter season...
...Nassau, B.W.I., more than 48 hours after leaving Miami, the 39-ft. yawl Hoot Mon (skippered by Lockwood Pirie, a reformed, Star-boat sailor) drifted across the finish line in the slowest Miami-Nassau race on record and won that blue-water championship for the second year running...