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...which tailors the New York Times's famed 65-year-old slogan (ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT) to ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS WE PRINT. In another Maine weekly, the Kennebunk Star, the mysterious initials THWTB sprouted recently on Page One. Halfheartedly, Publisher Alexander Brook explained that they stand for THE HARD WAY'S THE BEST. In fact, they represent the classic cry of exasperated newsmen everywhere: To Hell with the Bastards...
...Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Milwaukee, Beaver Ridge Farms, Oak Brook, Royal Palm. Solo Cup and Tulsa-Aiken thwack it out in the finals of the national polo tournament...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. The author observes, not kindly, the retreat of the British empire in Africa in this spoof of everyone up to the Prime Minister and down to visiting U.S. anthropologists...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. In a masterful spoof on the mess in Africa, chiefly at the expense of the retreating British Empire, the author proves himself a Tarzan of the japes...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. "Who clipped the lion's wings?" asked T. S. Eliot. In this satirical novel about the decline of the British Empire in Africa, a former colonial official answers the question with a masterful spoof...