Word: al
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These shortcomings aside, there is something to be learned from scanning Quotemanship. Instead of simply listing his thousands of fascinating quotes-ranging from Gangster Al Capone on the American free-enterprise system to one Morris Zelditch on fluoridation-Historian Boller has chosen to weave them into a convincing argument for fair play in the use of quotations. But no matter how much harm may be done by distorting quotes, he demonstrates that the unretouched, straight quote can be most damaging of all. Practically everybody at one time or another has made statements that would better have been left unsaid...
...years, Al Meadows, 68, built General American Oil Co. into one of the nation's leading crude-oil producers, with affiliates in Europe and Canada, controls it with stock worth $68 million. "In oil and real estate, sometimes I've made $500,000 in a day-never made a really bad deal," he boasted. "Al operated on the same code in buying art that he did in oil," says one of Meadows' closest friends. "A man's word and handshake were good enough...
Because "computing is becoming al most as much a part of our working life as arithmetic or driving a car," the Pres ident's Science Advisory Committee has urged colleges to spend $400 million a year on computer instruction by 1971. It wants the Federal Government to help by sharing the cost of acquiring and operating the big machines...
What he is skilled at is eliciting the opinions of his guests. Admirer Al Capp notes that "so many other interviewers are so busy trying to formulate the next question that you can say, 'I just murdered your sister, and am planning to rape your grandmother,' and they'd say, 'That's great, A1. Now . . . ' Moreover, Johnny does not step in to kill his guests' lines. Says Comic Woody Allen: "He appears to be most pleased when the guest scores. He feels no compulsion to top me." Adds Actor George Segal, another Tonight...
Similarly, about a year ago, Johnny abruptly canned his manager of eight years, Al Bruno. The story is that the intricate sound and tape effects that go with Carson's cabaret act got snarled by a technician three shows running during an engagement at Miami's Eden Roc. Johnny called up New York, says a friend, actually sobbing. "They didn't laugh," he said. Carson blamed Bruno and bought out his contract...