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...order to upset their concentration before they go on-stage to face the judges. Katz's musculature may, on one level, set him irrevocably apart from the rest of us, but his sweet sporting spirit as he sits trying to absorb his defeat while graciously applauding a trickster's win is something with which any weekend athlete who has been one-upped by an allegedly friendly opponent can identify...
...years ago, Ernst was still a minority taste (a large minority, it is true). But when he died last week in Paris, one day short of his 85th birthday, a chapter in the history of modern culture closed. Ernst was our century's incarnation of Hermes, the agile trickster, and we will not see his like again. He was, with the more phlegmatic Rene Magritte, the best of all the artists connected with surrealism-the master of the "alternative" tradition of mystery, unreason and demonic...
...have one of the great forearms in tennis," suggested Political Trickster Dick Tuck. "To strain my arm in this would have been foolish, so I didn't." Tuck's comments were a waggish explanation for his defeat in the Esquire Gala Celebrity Mixed Invitational Arm-Wrestling Tourney held last week in Manhattan. While bartenders boosted the spirits of waiting contestants, Actor Peter Boyle, Singer Mac Davis, ex-Housewife Pat Loud and nine others soon joined Tuck in the loser's circle. The women's division championship went to Model Margaux Hemingway, whose vigorous gum-chewing...
Still, a number of newsmen wonder about the future. As President, of course, Ford will hardly have the time to cultivate journalists as he once did. Says Lisagor: "I can't picture him becoming a devious man, a trickster, but he may become more inaccessible." Says John Osborne of the New Republic: "I'm waiting and seeing." But one journalist has high expectations. Says Pierre Salinger, press secretary to President Kennedy and now a roving editor for France's L'Express: "The intent is there. The competence is there. I think the thing...
...Nixon's men kept walking into Washington courtrooms to face justice. Dwight L. Chapin, 33, once the President's appointments secretary, was given a term of 10 to 30 months for lying to a federal grand jury about his role in directing Donald Segretti, the political dirty trickster of Nixon's 1972 campaign. Chapin said that he would appeal his case to the Supreme Court if need be. (Chapin is the fifth former White House aide or consultant to be sentenced to jail. Three others-John W. Dean III, Frederick LaRue and Jeb Stuart Magruder-have pleaded...