Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novelists write mostly in the first person, and that person speaks comic-strip American: jive jabber, Al Capptions, sportsese. What he says is ironic, defensive, cool, often comical. In all of these novels, the tone of the talk matters more than the shape of the plot. The new pops derive from the traditional novel of sensibility, but their sensibility is fresh and American. Their anti-heroes are the self and abstract of the lonely crowd, the Jonah wandering lost in the modern Leviathan...
...paired with Arnold Palmer in a tournament last year. "I knew I would never get near the refreshment stands because of Arnie's Army," he says, "so I had my wife make me up a lunch." He wound up winning $59,699 in 1965. Nibbling sandwiches between shots, Al insists, has a tranquilizing effect: "If I don't eat I get nervous, and when I get nervous I make bad decisions." Why peanut butter and jelly? "If you forget and leave them in your golf bag," says Al, "you can still eat them the next...
Geiberger kind of liked Firestone. With the help of his trusty sandwich, Al won last year's American Golf Classic at Akron, and he MOORE celebrated his return last week by firing a two-underpar 68 in the first round-while pre-tournament Favorites Palmer and Nicklaus were scoring 75s and Bobby Nichols, the 1964 P.G.A. champion, was shooting a horrendous 81. A second-round 72 left Geiberger one stroke off the pace set by doughty old (54) Sam Snead; but Snead was suffering from a painfully pulled groin muscle, dropped six strokes behind next day when Al shot...
...charges that one prisoner had a severe reaction to DMSO, but that this was not acknowledged in the Kligman report, that Dr. Kligman al lowed his comparison subjects to take other investigational drugs, instead of a dummy (placebo), thus rendering his conclusions meaningless, and that he reported blood tests on patients who were not even in the hospital at the time he claimed. Dr. Kligman has the right to ask the FDA to review its action...
Those Good Old Ways. The heyday of Hines was in the 1930s, when from the throne of a white grand piano he led the band at Chicago's Grand Terrace ballroom, which flourished under the partial ownership of Al Capone and cronies. "I couldn't afford to have stars for the band," says Hines, "so I had to make them." He nurtured dozens of first-rate musicians; Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker used the band as a laboratory for the newly emerging bebop. In 1940, stepping high in snakeskin shoes, a diamond tiepin and purple tie, Hines...