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...works at least 14 hours a day. About 10, he gets up, bathes, shaves, douses himself with Bain de Champagne perfume, wraps himself in a six-foot-square Turkish towel and drips across the costly Aubusson tapestry rug on his bedroom floor. He sits down at his three bedroom phones (one gilded). There he starts the day's business. He rarely reaches the office before 2 p.m., frequently drifts home from Toots Shor's or the Stork Club after...
...oarsman lowers at his reflection in the sleek wet shell and nurses the black conviction that today he pulled the boat all by himself. It is at this touchy moment that coach Bert Haines, a slim, middling-aged man with a wind-reddened face underlined by a thick white towel around his neck, steps from a launch, calls the day's offender aside, and with gestures explains in a gentle, English-tinged voice, "Now, this is the surface of the water, and my palm, here, is the blade of the oar . . ." The boyish enthusiasm over crew and Bert Haines among...
...strike's third day, the nonstriking teachers threw in the towel. "We do not feel justified," they told Superintendent Bapst, "in accepting the taxpayers' money. ... It is only wasted." Buffalo closed down the entire school system and notified the state government that "public education has collapsed...
...smiling, flashing-eyed Costa Rican youngster who knows where Heaven is. It is, he is sure, the U.S.- the place that sends shining Buicks and glistening DC-35 to his native San Jose. When he was 15, Victor Manuel packed up, wrapped a piece of soap and a towel in his other blue shirt, and started for Heaven. Last week he told his strange story...
...going to get licked," was Coach Gordon Smith's pitty forecast of his Tech Swimmers' efforts tonight, meeting Hall Ulen's outfit in the Indoor Athletic Pool at 8 o'clock. But casting nothing resembling a towel in his opposition's direction, he added that he was damned if he'd tip his cards the night before by releasing any indication of a lineup...