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...there. Get him out of there," shouts The Animal. As soon as one man hits, another starts his charge. Matsko holds his ground. Again a helmet shoots for his belly; Matsko catches the thrust with his shoulder, brings up his forearm in a vicious swipe to bounce his tormentor clear. After six attacks he is still there. His face stretches into weird contortions as he fights for breath. But he has proved, once more, his right to his job as linebacker. (On the other side of the field, Guard Dan Currie slams his 235 lbs. into a blocking dummy, drives...
Another clever piece of casting was the contrast between Altshul's heartiness and the effective combination of foolishness and sinisterness with which Paul Burkhardt played the part of "head jailer and assistant tormentor" Wilfred Shadbold. James Greene as Leonard Meryll and Al Hudson as Sir Richard Cholomondeley were adequate in supporting roles. Headsman James Gale was macabre...
...expression on your face, your play is this. "Why, I never had to learn any French. My mist . . . uh . . . a girl did all my interpreting." Needless to say, a discrete look around and a man-to-man tone of voice will enhance the effectiveness of this ploy. If your tormentor has been feminine, it is safe to say she'll leave you alone for the rest of the evening...
Russia's Andrei Gromyko, who recently has had the unusual experience of having to listen to some unvarnished New England backtalk, painted an extraordinary word picture of his tormentor. Chief U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Said Gromyko: "The U.S. representative has not been speaking, but swearing, using a jargon of the hillbilly shepherds in the mountains of Kentucky...
Once again the police absolved Mrs. Gutheridge of blame. They suggested, too, that she try to arrange a meeting with her telephone tormentor so that they might trap him. But Dorothy Gutheridge, near collapse, could no longer endure the sound of her phone and the relentless daily question. With her father, she fled to a relative's home. "Sometimes I think I am an instrument of death," she said last week. "Sometimes it just seems I can never get in an automobile again. I don't know what I am going to do, but I think...