Word: bagman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever Jimmy Carter has done as President, it was not without Reason. Commander Joseph Paul Reason, U.S.N.. 38, that is, who as the President's naval aide has also been his bagman. Reason dogged Carter across the country and the world carrying a familiar black bag, a.k.a. "the football," stuffed with necessary signal codes and target information in case the President had to order instant retaliation for a nuclear attack. Reason, who at 6 ft. 3 in. is easily visible behind his 5-ft, 9½-in. fellow Annapolis graduate, had to scramble last month when Carter, vacationing...
...just goes to prove that some of the most sincere and useful lectures to be heard around Boston are not always given by Harvard professors or Washington hucksters. Deger, better known as Bob the Bagman by those who frequent the Boston Commons or the Stone Soup Gallery in Boston's West End, was at one time a nuclear engineer for the federal government. Last week he died, 55 years old and homeless after roaming Boston for five years as a "street...
...Boston and Cambridge. They are often spooky looking old men and we are afraid they will ask us for money or ask us to return to Jesus. But often the most disenchanted with society and isolated from the "Reality" we live have a lot to say. Bob the Bagman sure did. Stop and listen some time--hell, its cheaper than the Law Forum...
Those of you who didn't make it to hear Bob the Bagman--the twenty year veteran of Boston-area bumming--on the view from the gutter really missed something. Although, as one spectator put it, Bob's twenty years on the streets have given him a "detached mental process," his opinions were original and stimulating. After graduating from Purdue, Bob kept his mind agile by "sleeping close to the ground, where the air is richer." (Beware, apartment dwellers.) Like Socrates, he wandered across the land expounding his simple rules of living. He listens to the birds, and "smartest animals...
Henry David Thoreau will not speak this week. Nor will Mahatma Ghandi. Timothy Leary may speak, but not in Boston, and only Bob the Bagman could understand him anyway...