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Never a star athlete, Case showed his prowess in offbeat competitions. He won a prune-eating contest at a Y.M.C.A. summer camp. And on his library mantel is a cup given him for winning a heel-and-toe walking race at a fair near Poughkeepsie in 1921. He had entered the contest because he considered it a "real challenge": the only other man in the race was a postman. At Rutgers (where he was Phi Beta Kappa), he was an attack man on the varsity lacrosse team, and he has a broken nose to show...
...ordinary stops, Mayer acquired such theatrical effects as a cymbal crash, a tympani roll, a drum stroke. In 1950, a wealthy alumnus gave Mayer a second new console, a $35,000 item that contained 1,622 parts, including 757 stop keys, 218 combinations and 248 miscellaneous gadgets (e.g., a toe-touch stud that brings on a soft stop with one kick, adds a louder one with the second and turns both off with the third...
...British theater, flounces through her part with the sad little flourish of a hat-check girl in a customer's mink. And Ida can flounce with a verve that would have delighted Grandpa Lupino, known as "Old George," who held the 19th century record for successive toe spins...
...Tamplin, inventor of a 54-gallon, radio-controlled beer barrel (at the flick of a dial it rolls out of the house and across the lawn to where the operator is sitting, fills his glass, returns to the house), permitted a friend to operate the barrel, suffered a crushed toe when the barrel rolled out of control...
...fallen in." In 60 days, $1.5 billion in contracts were canceled, more that 38,000 workers laid off. Bill Allen remembered the grim joke North American's James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger once told him on the boom-or-bust character of the industry: "If I stub my toe and fall while running to lay off people, we're liable to lose our shirts." Strikes & Stratocruisers. Allen tightened his lips, set out to see what he could salvage. He hardly looked like the man for the job, acted even less like it. He appeared shy and unsure, talked...