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Despite his pugnaciousness in business, Ball, a divorcee, seeks to present a personal air of courtliness, especially to women. As a manager, he leaves operating details to underlings and sticks close to - financial matters, stacking trust records in cardboard boxes in his office. He lives frugally, owns only four suits, and long ago he bought up a batch of cheap dime-store spectacles with progressively thicker lenses that he keeps in his office safe. After each working day, Ball holds court at his apartment, downing ginger ale and bourbon and spinning yarns for his cronies. It is a life that...
Some were living in hollows that they'd dug out of the ground; others had made little "houses" made from tomato stakes, sheets of plastic, and cardboard for the floor. There was a clearing where there were empty cans of soda, eggshells, and other "kitchen items". They bathed, washed their clothes and drank from the one stream nearby. There weren't any bathrooms, and you could come across human feces in the woods. Some people had just stretched sheets of plastic between two rows of tomatoes and slept there. At another ranch, the people we talked to had been promised...
...dozen local performers have signed recording contracts, and the migration of musicians into Austin continues. It all seems a long way from Luckenbach. Or at least the old Luckenbach. These days the town is a thriving weekend tourist spot, which does brisk business in T shirts and bumper stickers. Cardboard NO PARKING signs lean against the trees; nothing is nailed down because the nails, like the signs, have been taken by tourists. Each week a couple of weddings are performed under the big cypress tree down by the creek-if the bride and groom can find their way to town...
That response is an ancient tic of the trade. At Central Casting, the tough, cynical reporter is as familiar a cardboard cutout as the prostitute with a heart of gold. This is the skeptical spirit that gave us Watergate, and though it has had no comparable success since (how could it?), the attitude persists. Without that spirit, he would insist, politicians would cheat and lie and always get away with it; government snoopery and police brutality would go undetected and unchecked; products would never be shown up for being less than advertised; wretched conditions, unreported and uncorrected, might bring...
...fourth inning oozes imperceptibly into the eighth, while meantime all the fans are home watching the Red Sox on the tube. It is the memories of having to play in the shadowy Negro Leagues, jousting with the equals of Ruth and Cobb, and then packing your clothes in a cardboard suitcase and hitching to the next fleabag hotel for tomorrow's exhibition with the Black Barons. Finally, baseball is the ultimate game, corporate-American style, where paunchy men gamble for high stakes on whether their stables of funny-suited heroes can lure enough disciples to pay off the mortgage...