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...however, is the comic relief he provides. Even before the Crimson's biggest games this season, Munatones was getting the Harvard sqaud loose with a variety of jokes--for instance, by going to the pre-game meeting with the Brown captain before one game wearing a child's inflatable toy wrapped around his face...
...child's safety. The child was being left alone in the house for long periods of time (his mother worked evenings). An officer, who says he thought the call was a setup for an ambush, kicked in the door and shot the boy, who was holding a toy pistol. The officer got probation...
...nationally syndicated "Miller's Court" looks especially good. Commenting on his contributions to several television programs, Miller says "I have to avoid being captured by the medium." But the articulate and straightforward Miller places his television career into perspective. "I look at [it] as my middle-age toy," he adds...
...what might be called the Every Now and Then Transatlantic Singlehanded Ridiculously Small Boat Derby. The first entrant was the late Robert Manry, a Cleveland newspaperman who in 1965 sailed across the Atlantic in his 13½-ft. Tinkerbelle, a craft so tiny that it looked like a bathtub toy. Years passed-it takes a certain sort of person to enter the Ridiculous-and last year Briton Tom McClean sailed from Newfoundland to England in an absurd craft called the Giltspur, more than 3 ft. shorter than Tinkerbelle...
...your article on Americans vacationing overseas [July 25], you show a photo of a U.S. tourist kissing a Windsor Castle Guardsman in England. What would happen if I, a British citizen, attempted to kiss your President's Secret Service men? Make no mistake, that "little toy soldier" is a member of the British army and has probably served in Northern Ireland or the Falklands. I do not deny that his dress uniform is a tourist attraction, but a little respect should be shown to the man and his profession...