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...face scattering under his white hair. The voice rises from a point near the bottom of his chest where the bands of medals end. "I'm one of those fellas," he says, "who always wanted to be a lawyer and never got to be. In my day bein' a lawyer meant bein' a politician--but I guess I'm pretty much in the thick of things right...
...suggests a night out, Andy concurs: "If yer get 'ome before me, leave the lights on." But his long-suffering mate wouldn't change him for the world. "Don't think I 'aven't tried it, Rube," she says to a friend. "But bein' away from 'im is almost as miserable as bein' with...
...Bein' cullud can be a lot of fun-when they ain't nobody lookin...
Jimmy was wrong. They had problems -and so did he. Long gone were the days when he was the music world's national tyrant ("I'm gettin' a repetition for bein' a dictator"). His own musical taste had always been earthy: "Personally, I go for a good brass band." But his secret of success was eminently practical: "Music is good as long as it gives a union...
...like to move his business to Hanover?" Others emphasized the attractions of living in West Germany ("near the French border" was one lure), Vienna, even Majorca. Despite West Berlin's lavish tax concessions to new industry, almost every Berlin-based company of note had put down a zweites Bein, or second leg, in safer territory...