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...stepgrandson of Henry Luce, the cofounder of this magazine. That's true. In fact, I knew him well. Henry III was my stepfather. My mom [Claire McGill] married Hank when I was 10. It was really a head-whipper. It was very confusing for me to move from 3 1/2 rooms on the border of Spanish Harlem to a 20-room duplex on Madison Avenue...
...long time from now, when the year 1993 seems like a dim memory to some and like a fantasy to others, Giardi will be talked of as if he were a mythical figure, a sentinel of the Stadium. And then a golden-legged whipper snapper will rise up and challenge Giardi's mammoth accomplishments. Then the cycle will begin again...
...From coast to coast, nursery owners say their business has doubled. Even baby boomers who did not have the remotest interest in the subject two years ago now rattle off the Latin names of their plants and comb suburban garden stores for just the right style of Japanese weed whipper...
...brothel. A heavy, padded belt was wrapped around his waist to protect his kidneys. An assistant painted a 2-in.-wide red stripe across the prisoner's buttocks to define the target zone; then the two floggers, alternating strokes, began to whack his rump. After each blow, the whipper would dance back a few steps; turning with acrobatic grace, he would twirl his cane like a drum major's baton and rush forward to strike the next blow. The victim's body writhed in agony with each fall of the cane. He cried out: "Allah Akbar...
Died. Leigh Whipper, 98, veteran black character actor; in Manhattan. Among his early parts was a role in an 1898 production of Uncle Tom's Cabin in which he sang Old Black Joe. After serving in the Spanish-American War, Whipper spent 74 years in character roles in plays and films like Porgy and Of Mice and Men. In 1920 he became the first black member of the Actors Equity Association, which did not know his color when he was admitted...