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...order such a meal, a customer has to have more crust than a Bowery mission pie. But some of the owners and waiters have worked out a defensive "treatment" for such diners. As soon as they hear the odious order, waiters snatch the tablecloth from the table and the napkin from the diner's lap. The table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room...
Coolly, Arrington balanced in the doorway. "I pulled the ripcord in the door so the wind would snatch me out. The wind did." He went down face first, looking at the ground. When he was below the level of the treetops, he was still falling like a stone. The chute opened fully when he was only a few feet above the ground, so late that his feet were above his head when he hit. In a split second, the plane roared through the trees above him. slammed into the ground 50 yards away (killing an eight-point, 150-lb. buck...
Scarcely a petal of each play is preserved-an air of one, a snatch of another -but the writers of the script (Gilliat worked with Leslie Baily, whose Gilbert & Sullivan Book was a 1952 bestseller) have deftly wired them all together to make a charming, if slightly artificial musical forget-me-not. Some of the charm is due to the spirited stuffiness of the Victorian settings and the muted Technicolor. Best of all, several members of the famed D'Oyly Carte company (Martyn Green, Thomas Round, Gron Davies) give silken-fine performances...
Doug's dark, rugged features and his massive 290 lbs. on a 5 ft. 9 in. frame caused a stir on Stockholm's streets. Ignoring the dangerous Swedish girls, he immediately set to practicing the two-hands championship lifts-the press, snatch, and clean and jerk.* Last week his big moment came. Hepburn faced the gargantuan defending world champion, Brooklyn's John Davis, in the heavyweight class (lifter's own weight unlimited). Planting his feet and unlimbering his tremendous biceps, Doug reached his goal. With three lifts totaling 1,030¼ Ibs., he beat Runner...
...three start with the weight bar laid at the lifter's feet, and end with it held above his head, arms fully extended. In the press, the bar is held for two seconds at shoulder level, then smoothly raised the rest of the way. The snatch calls for hoisting the bar in one continuous motion. In the clean and jerk, the bar is moved upward from the shoulders by a sudden arm-stiffening motion...