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...children of Forward readers do not read the paper, because they cannot. As the second-generation sons and daughters of Jewish immigrants, they have forgotten the mother tongue, that backward-running curious cross of Hebrew and medieval German. Like Yiddish itself, the Forward is an anachronism, born in a departed past to meet a need that no longer exists...
...Looking Backward." On Meet the Press, Scranton criticized G.O.P. criticism of President Kennedy's action against Cuba: "I don't think it makes a lot of sense to be belittling the Cuban efforts of the President at this juncture because, at least so far, it has been successful." He was worried about his own national party: "We are always looking backward instead of looking forward." He said that as Governor he will not try to influence the votes of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation: "I, as a Congressman, rather resented it, frankly, when Governors and others told...
...picture has absolutely everything-Panavision, Metrocolor, stars galore, 200 animals, 2,000 extras, a $5,000,000 budget. Yet somehow in spite of, or because of, all the tanbark and trumpets, clowns and candy-butchers, high wires, low jinks and desperate little dogs that can't stop doing backward somersaults, Jumbo is a great big blubbery amiable polka-dotted elephant of a show, just the ticket for a holiday hoot with the wife and kiddies...
...summers of "throwing" concrete and gravel-propel the puck toward the net at 90 m.p.h. What sometimes seems like uncanny accuracy comes from Howe's study of every goalie's weakness: "Some are vulnerable to rebounds-like Glenn Hall of Chicago. He has a habit of falling backward when he makes a save. Jacques Plante of Montreal doesn't always cover the corners...
Best bit: Jerry, always helpful, grabs a fish pole from a lady angler when she gets a bite, yanks on it hard, loses the fish, staggers backward, tangles poles with another angler, staggers backward knocking over anglers, poles, bait buckets, lunch baskets and trash cans, till at last he winds up splat in the middle of the first this-is-me-and-the-big-fish-I-caught snapshot ever taken with the subject's head in the fish's mouth...