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...members affectionately refer to it, is a form of off-the-water torture that the Chinese cannot take credit for. It looks like the tanks, but with not only no sunsets, but also no water, and no rowers. Except, of course, you. Just you, and the oar handle, a timer ticking the slowest seconds in Cambridge, if not the world, and a meter to let you know how you're doing...
...Death of the Boogie Woogie. Old-timer Karl Bostic directs Black C.A.S.T. in the Loeb Ex. 64 Brattle Street, November 18-20. Tickets free the day prior to performance at the Loeb Box Office...
Much of the impetus for the anti-smoking campaign seems to be coming from the top. At the insistence of doctors worried about his health, Party Chief Leonid I. Brezhnev has tried for years to stop his heavy smoking. He even resorted to a special cigarette case with a timer; the case would open only once every 45 minutes. Last year Brezhnev finally kicked his habit and apparently feels that other Russians can-and had better-follow his lead...
...that there were always new young men ready to play and play better than the new young men on other teams. It also meant that the Yankees could do cold-hearted things like let go of their veteran All-Star shortstop Phil Rizzuto as a surprise gesture on Old Timer's Day 1956 sure in the knowledge that Jerry Coleman, Gil McDougald or Billy Martin (each a star on his own) would fill the hole...
Nineteen years, almost to the day, that he was unceremoniously dismissed in the midst of a ceremony, Phil Rizzuto stood on the field during Yankee Old Timer's Day and watched his old teammate Billy Martin take cheers as the team's new manager. Rizzuto was gray by 1975 and wore inexplicably large tinted aviator glasses which made him look like a 1,000,000X blown up slide of a house fly. If I were pretending to be omniscient I would tell you how Rizzuto felt watching Martin walk on the field to a huge ovation. ("Phil felt a lump...