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Proudly, Lerner points out that he avoided rhyming "Camelot" with "swam a lot" or "Lancelot" with "dance a lot" but he did bring off such a rhyme in My Fair Lady when he lined up "Budapest" and "ruder pest" (it had to be changed after Soviet tanks in 1956 made the line less amusing). At his worst, his pudding is awfully hasty...
...Kennedy swam varsity for two years and earned his letter in the Yale meet of his Senior year. That year the team had a national champion, a fellow who won just about everything. Dick Tregaskis was later to win a Pulitzer Prize for his Guadalcanal Diary...
...freestyle relay (8:10.2). Bobbing like a porpoise, Indiana's Mike Troy, 19. windmilled through the grueling 200-meter butterfly in 2:12.8 to break his world record by .4 sec. In two major races, Australia's Murray Rose won the 400-meters and Teammate John Konrads swam off with the 1,500-meters. But when all the events were done, the U.S. men and women had routed the strong Australians by the margin of nine gold medals to five, cracked nine Olympic and six world records. "Our trackmen came here to beat their opponents," said...
...Smokies dot the land/ God sent a new boy baby/ And he called him Billy Graham"). Fourteen years ago, McEnery also achieved some slight notoriety by handcuffing himself to a piano and writing 52 original songs in eight hours without getting up. When the plight of Pilot Powers swam into McEnery's vision, he waited, he says, to be sure that Powers was "a real American hero" and not "a turncoat or something like that," then quickly ground out the lyrics and set them to the music of There's a StarSpangled Banner Waving Somewhere. So far, Nikita...
...that the gasping little boy might breathe, the family had to move to the hill town of Alta Gracia. There Che began a stubborn personal battle to beat the asthma. He swam, roamed the streets ;with a gang of toughs, played golf, took odd jobs in Córdoba's vineyards. His father taught him to shoot-and started him rambling through some of the 3,000 books, mostly leftist sociology and history, that crammed the family bookshelves. The boy was entranced with the works of Chile's Communist Poet Pablo Neruda, memorized many of his poems...