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Well the stream behind our shack was running strong and clear and the poplars along its banks poured down their green light so we sank our cases and sat down to a good three hours of quaffing and smoking and low-brow chit-chat. The girls played with a twig-sized water snake. That skinny, terrified little thing twisted about my hand, and it was hell...
Three days later old Daniel and Gay were back together for another month. Bridget and Jenny were staying over and Briggs and I were out hustling. We were all shouting across the fiber-board, and though nobody talked about Pegleg Mac's, we found plenty other low brow chit-chat...
Lone Reporter. Schorr's manner seems abrasive. The glasses are thick, the brow is wrinkled, the voice is from a gravel pit. Hustler Schorr concedes: "I guess I'm aggressive, but I don't consider myself abrasive. I'm direct." When he is not on the prowl, he can be amiable and modest. But he has seldom been off the prowl. Schorr started quietly enough as a print reporter in 1934-seven years for minor wire agencies and five years freelancing. Later he worked for CBS abroad, mainly in Central Europe, and did not reach Washington...
...House for lunch. "You know what he said," Kennedy mused the next day. "He said that we shouldn't put one American soldier on the continent of Asia-we couldn't win a fight in Asia." Again the haunting question: would a simple no or a furrowed brow in the Cabinet Room have prevented the Viet Nam agony? It could have...
Tonight we load blankets into the trunk and drive west on impulse without leaving any messages behind. Sheree feels comfortable in cars. She can't handle people very well, but when a machine goes awry she rarely slips up. Her brow is usually rutted, which strangers take for anger. For me, Sheree has a sullen intrigue. To others, she radiates a tension that Ronda deflects with her glib smile and the glinting earring in a pierced nostril. They are always together...