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...unseated the camera-toting American as the most unwelcome guest. Said a Cologne industrialist at his campsite: "I look upon camping as a denial of the materialism that has sprung up in Germany. Outdoors we can turn our backs on our material gains and try to find the answers." Snort Italian shopkeepers and French bistro owners: The Germans are campers because they are pfennig pinchers...
...shortened out of courtesy to the Americans. Even so, Benjamin, the best American two-miler, was 11 seconds behind Oxford's Gilligan. While the Americans religiously abstained from alcohol and tobacco before the big meet, the British, deception aside, showed no aversion to a few puffs or a small snort. Gilligan made a great show just before the start of the two-mile, parading up and down the track with a cigar clenched in his teeth...
...Sept. 25 An Evening with Jimmy Durante (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Even though he is saddled with such guest stars as Lawrence Welk, Sal Mineo and Bobby Darin, the Old Schnozzola ought to be able to snort up enough enthusiasm to make this rare TV appearance worth the trouble of tuning in. Color...
...world mark to himself. He was so far ahead in a preliminary heat in the Fresno relays last month that he eased up and looked back over his shoulder to see what had happened to his competitors. Nevertheless, Norton ran the heat in 9.3. Said Head Timekeeper Snort Winstead: "I think he would have run 9.1 if he hadn't turned his head." Last month at Fresno the lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 Ibs.) Norton caught the fast-finishing Morrow in the last few strides to win the finals...
...ability to match wits with wind, tides and currents, without the crutch of a gasoline engine. To many of them, powerboatmen are simply "stinkpotters." who think there is nothing more to know about seamanship than how to push a starter button and steer. They in turn suffer the derisive snort of "rag-haulers." The schism runs deep. After all, say the rag-haulers, we were here first...