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...direction and Gingrich left. "It became a sort of uptown Argosy," says Gingrich. By the time he returned in 1952, "the original advertisers had left, ad revenues were down, and the whole climate was such that those associated with its early phase refused to touch it with a ten-foot pole." Gingrich set it back on course again, but not without difficulty. "In 1953," he recalls, "our circulation still included people who couldn't read without moving their lips." During the next three years, Esquire accelerated its evolution. The advent of Playboy hastened the process, because Gingrich wished...
Gene Dressler -- with fewer than five seconds, remaining in his Crimson basketball career -- faked left, took two steps to the right, hesitated and banked a ten-foot jump shot off the board. The ball plunked through the hoop, giving Harvard a 71-69 win over Dartmouth in the IAB last night...
...Endless Summer. To surfboard enthusiasts, a new wave film is an epic celebrating the cool of a bronzed athlete atop a ten-foot slab of polyurethane foam, shooting through a tunnel of sea-green water formed by a breaker's curl. "The ultimate thing in surfing is to be covered up by the wave," says Bruce Brown, a blond, 28-year-old Californian who probably qualifies as the world's foremost exponent of pleasure before business. A Bergman of the boards, Brown makes his pleasures pay, and has pushed his income into a fun-filled six-figure bracket...
...corn by attaching it to a typewriter carriage, knocking it back every time he wanted to start a new row; he invented a wind shield wiper to be served with grape fruit; and an eleven-foot pole for people he wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole...
...which point it occured to this porter that his roommate possesses ten-foot blowgun (for reasons best known to himself, natch), with which he could probably knock out the lightbulb sitting on the steps of Grays. From Stoughton it would be a snap...