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They both sat down. Harry on a bench, and Ralph on a white towel he had brought out for just such an occasion. Parker stared out at the grey sky and heard a jet pass somewhere overhead. The smile faded to a blank and then there was a dead silence...
Died. Charles A. Cannon, 78, chairman of Cannon Mills Co.; of a stroke; in Kannapolis, N.C. Son of the company's founder, Cannon initiated a number of industry advances, including pastel colors for towels and matching towel sets, that helped to make Cannon Mills one of the largest textile companies in the nation (1970 sales, $306 million). Yet he was also the last of the oldtime textile barons. He owned and ran the company town of Kannapolis. Though his company was a publicly held corporation, he once refused to send proxy material to outside stockholders because the New York...
Once settled in indefinitely as Brown's house guest, Toback joined the enviable rhythms of a superstar's life. It was the ultimate locker room, a fan's towel-snapping fantasy come true-buddy to the hero, access to exciting places and beautiful people. There are mornings on the tennis court where Toback, an experienced player, barely manages to beat Beginner Brown. There are afternoons at the Black Economic Union, the organization Brown founded to generate capital and talent for Negro enterprises. There are evenings at discotheques that run wildly into all-night parties...
...York and became the premier boxer on the Waterfront. Exhausting American competition, Molineaux then went to England to take on the English champion, Tom Cribb. Molineaux battered the white man for 23 rounds. Cribb's handlers saw that he was unable to continue, but instead of throwing in the towel, went to the referee charging that Molineaux had lead weights concealed in his fists. The referee, who by the rules should have given the fight to Molineaux, played along with the stalling tactic of Cribb's handlers, waiting for Cribb to revive. In the interim, Molineaux, unaccustomed to the climate...
...wrote Charlotte's Web to be read aloud, and in his straight forward style with his traces of Maine accent, he reads it as it should be read, speaking from experience about the life on a farm, about "digging reddish" and about wiping one's hands on a "roller- towel. " Maybe, if you have some friends without a grandfather who'll read aloud at the end of the day, you can get the recording of Charlotte's Web for them...