Word: trunksful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the hill village of Shirakawa, Hikosaku Matsumoto, 62, is called "Hyakkan Jii San"-100-kan oldster-because of his boast that he can lift 100 kan (825 Ibs.). His undisciplined white beard and scholarly bald dome make him look more like an elderly monk than an athlete. His nickname...
One of the Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser...
Between times he took sun baths in a pair of bright green trunks, began reading Arthur Schlesinger's The Age of Jackson. When the yacht anchored in Delaware Bay he went swimming, employing a sedate sidestroke which enabled him to keep his glasses unsplashed.
Thanks to F.D.R.'s own interest in history and his place in it, his papers are not stored, like most presidents', in a family attic or scattered casually in trunks here & there. The Roosevelt papers, gathered in the $350,000 Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, are...
Place & Show. In Omaha, Marty Kaplan, ahead in the last lap of a swimming race, put on his stretch drive, swam right out of his trunks, got rattled, finished second.