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Tough as he is Arcaro has a few soft spots. Any tout or hustler around the track can usually work Eddie for "a double sawbuck." His mother telephoned him one day to say that she had lost her apartment and had no place to live. He hurried to Cincinnati, and bought her a $16,000 house...
...needle-point passer, will be cast for the role of Chappuis in Art Valpey's version of the Michigan offense. .. Hal Moffie, Harvard's seatback, can ontrun anybody on the Yale squad... Chip Gannon is due for a big year at Cambridge. .. Bob DlBiasio is the lad Yard birds tout as a 'second Mahan'... Tom Guthrie will be eligible next fall...
Meanwhile the excitement over his achievement has ebbed away. What is there for him to do? He plans, vaguely, to fly around the world, lecturing on India. But, back home, the native princes, who might be interested in financing him if he were a tout for dancing girls, turn him down: it would be less expensive to found a chair of Indian music at an English university...
...doesn't like to admit it in front of the Tsarevich," she added in a stage whisper, "but His Imperial Majesty is simply fascinated by Stalin-mais tout aàfait épris...
...most Tin Pan Alley wordsmiths, the earnest philosophizing behind these lines would look like a Supreme Court justice's robes on a race-track tout. On Hammerstein, who has the stature for it, it doesn't look...