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...insolence catalyzes their own hostility-and this three-cornered thriller quickly generates force. By the time they reach pierside, the two males are abristle, eying each other like cocks in a pit. "You're no match for me, but come aboard," taunts the older man. The boy accepts: "Ah, you want to carry on the game...
...dislikes. This allows con men to lug around the profs favorite magazine, or to ape his lingo. If this fails, says a recent Michigan graduate, there is the "welfare approach" of pretending poverty by wearing "hand-pressed khaki pants" and asking the professor on the very first-day "Ah, how much did you say that textbook was?" As a Wisconsin con man puts it: "These days, if you're not one up, you're one down...
Snooker & Stout. Spare time is Andy's chief possession, and he employs it outrageously. "Ah, well, I can't idle away a luv'ly morning like this," he muses, lying abed with the sun high. But the only way he knows to make money is to gamble. "Flo!" he shouts. "Fetch me football pools coupon up." He is no help around the house. "I thought I asked yer to notice when the pan boiled over," says Flo. "I did," says her spouse. "It was a quarter past eleven...
...Kidding. Ah, but Yogi was smarter than the average bear. While he was getting yuks, Yankee pitchers were getting the sign and the team was winning pennants-ten under Casey Stengel, three straight under laconic Ralph Houk. For fun and profit, Yogi built a bowling alley in Clifton, N.J., became a vice president of something called Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink, and prospered to the point that he could claim to be "half a millionaire." Stengel liked to call him "Mr. Berra, my assistant manager," and Houk promoted him to player-coach this year. No one could figure out if they...
...Ah, Anantanarayanan-I've heard of you. The Times once...