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...read with great interest your article on the new breed in sportswriters [Sept. 1] , and think you might like to know that the writer who put the "belt" into the story and the Miami sports editor with the antislang memorandum are one and the sameonly wiser...
...Brien kitchen became a political headquarters, and Democratic leaders from Boston made their way there-notably, flamboyant James Michael Curley, archetype of The Last Hurrah breed, and smooth-tongued David Ignatius Walsh, first Irishman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. Walsh was some times a trial: whenever he paid a call, he insisted on quizzing Larry on his American history and catechism. But Curley was another, headier cup of tea: as a bug-eyed boy, Larry listened spellbound as his father and Curley conspired like Sinn Feiners about the ways to break the hated Yankee Republican grip...
...Breed. Yesterday's sports sections bristled with evasions of perfectly useful words: four-ply wallop for homerun, apple for baseball, henhouse hoist for foul ball. When athletes were injured, claret flowed, not blood. On one occasion, the Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward, outraged at receipt of a story in which some ballplayer "belted" a homerun, whipped off his own belt, waved it before the eyes of the transgressor, and bellowed: "Did you ever see anyone hit a baseball with one of these...
...amateur soldiers, and by professional soldiers who became amateur writers. The two groups often seem to be writing about different wars. Into the no-man's land between the two camps moves John Masters, who from 1934 to 1947 was a professional soldier of a particularly proud breed-an officer in the Indian army. Since then, he has become a professional writer with seven novels about India to his credit (Bhowani Junction, Nightrunners of Bengal, The Venus of Konpara). In his autobiographical The Road Past Mandalay, Masters uses his novelist's insight and his soldier's knowledge...
...Cardiff and St. Louis; all were well known, including the Louvre's famous Card Players, which alone is valued at more than $1,000,000. What could the thieves possibly do with such recognizable loot? The police saw only one answer. The Riviera thieves were apparently a new breed of felon: paintnapers, who would hold the Cezannes for ransom...