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Forty years ago, a few students weren't thinking about working. March marked the anniversary of the national goldfish swallowing fad, begun at Harvard by Lothrop Worthington '42. Worthington said eating goldfish is "just a question of mind over matter, a conditioning thing. Like eating oysters...
...oddest celebrations is the Great Gobbler Gallop in Cuero, Texas, a town of 7,000 that raises 200,000 turkeys a year. There, a local fowl named Ruby Begonia disgraced the honor of Texas by losing to a bird named Paycheck from Worthington, Minn. But the gaiety...
...pilot announced the jet was passing over the border, the cabin erupted with cheering and sobbing. At San Diego's Lindbergh Field, scores of jubilant and tearful relatives, many waving "Welcome Home" signs, shouted prisoners' names as the transfers were whisked aboard a bus. Said Robin Worthington, 31, of San Francisco at a brief press conference: "It was a long battle, but we're home...
...both official and personal. As colleagues perish, as the enigmatic Ko brothers become more comprehensible, as loyalties dissolve, Jerry finds himself questioning his own motives and, finally, his orders, the discipline of his "tradecraft." The object of his sudden, intense affection is Drake Ko's beautiful mistress, Lizzie Worthington, an involvement that jeopardizes Westerby's entire mission. The carefully engineered defection of Nelson Ko becomes a ploy within a ploy with apocalyptic result...
...Lieut. General Frederick Browning, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army (and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier), wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that most fragmented experience: war. Here are just a few of the details of just...