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...around. Before long, writers of every stripe, from Dorothy Parker to Clifford Odets, had discovered this fantastic new way to waste their gifts and souls. That, at least, was the story many of them told throughout the '30s and '40s. The figure of the gin-soaked Hollywood sell-out became such a stale literary cliche that it found its way into the movies, where the studios and their hired scribblers could enjoy a hollow laugh at each other's expense...
...foul line became a favorite habitat of the cagers in the late going. Harvard tallied 21 of its final 23 points from the penalty stripe. Ferry, who netted 21 points to lead all scorers, hit 11 of 11 from the line on the game...
When Stockbroker Marina Verola, 29, agreed to pose for the March issue of Playboy both in and out of her pin-stripe suit, it was, she said, "to show that beauty and brains can go together." Her employer, the Dean Witter Reynolds office in Boca Raton, Fla., was apparently not convinced. According to Verola, she informed her employers of the modeling offer last July and was abruptly fired. Then, she claims, Dean Witter lured away her clients with unspecified "inferences and innuendoes." She and her husband Victor, 36, a broker at the same firm, say they shared 125 clients...
Throughout the night, Harvard's guards penetrated the Big Green defense virtually at will. Meanwhile, Trout and Plutnicki freed themselves for back-door layins. The Crimson's longest successful shots of the night came from the foul stripe...
Thus the Crimson fell, 73-61, mainly because the Quakers journeyed to the foul stripe 53 times and tallied 35 charity points. Mean-while, four of the five Crimson starters--Elaine Holpuch. Ann Scannell1, Pat Horne and Cindy Clapp--joined the ranks of the unemployed, each leaving the game early with five personal fouls...