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...record, it was on Wednesday, Nov. 23, that Kennebunkport met its first metal detector. Bush was to address his friends and neighbors -- folks like Booth Chick and Carl Bartlett -- on the town green, and his security men set one up on Ocean Avenue to screen the audience. He had survived more than 60 summers in this lovely coastal Maine town without a single metal detector, but then he never was President-elect. Trouble was, there were too many people for the lone detector. The police finally said the hell with it, just before Bush began, and let everyone...
Chandler is not, of course, the only American writer with a centenary this year who worked in a British bank, steeped his writing in the classics and explored the breakdowns of the age in cadences so memorable that he seems to have taken up a time-share ownership of Bartlett's. But T.S. Eliot was an American who found his voice in England, and in books. Chandler, by contrast, was an honorary Brit who smuggled two foreign substances into Hollywood -- irony and morality -- and so gave us an unflinchingly American voice, the kind we hear in the rainy voice-overs...
...base and drowning a foot from shore, of Los Angeles outfielder Kirk Gibson limping out the grand home runs on a frayed leg injected with cortisone (in the spirit of the times, a steroid; "It's amazing what drugs can do," he said), or of National League president A. Bartlett Giamatti sniffing Dodger relief pitcher Jay Howell's glove for pine tar or caramel ("I felt there could be some amelioration by me," said Giamatti, sounding like Casey Stengel). But the memory is of Jefferies botching a bunt, booting a double play, running into a ball on the base paths...
...Bartlett Giamatti, another 'dog from Yale, was named this summer to succeed Peter Ueberroth as baseball commissioner, and now Orel "The Bulldog" Hershiser has led the Los Angeles Dodgers to the World Series Championship and, in the process, was named MVP of the series following his complete game, 5-2 win in Game 5 over the Oakland...
...Bartlett Giamatti grew up loving books and the Boston Red Sox. Next April he becomes commissioner of major league baseball...