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Little Blowhard. Nobody argued. When Finley took over, the Athletics were so deep in the American League cellar that he needed a flashlight to find them. Over 27 seasons in Philadelphia and Kansas City, the A's struggled into the first division only twice, finished dead last 13 times. "The worst team in the history of baseball," somebody once called them, and Former Owner Arnold Johnson made matters worse by turning the team into a kind of farm club for the New York Yankees-trading away such stars as Roger Maris, Cletis Boyer, Ralph Terry, Hector Lopez...
...entertaining when Douglas was Ambassador to France. Since her husband is a registered Republican as well as Treasury Secretary for a Democratic President, her range of guests is often broader than is the case with more partisan hostesses. And Dillon, who owns a fine French vineyard, has a wine cellar that ranks with Hervé Alphand...
...with their mushroom haircuts and high white shirt collars, and onstage they clown around endlessly-twisting, cracking jokes, gently laughing at the riotous response they get from their audience. The precise nature of their charm remains mysterious even to their manager. "I dropped in at a smoky, smelly, squalid cellar," he says of the day he discovered them, "and there were these four youths. Their act was ragged, their clothes were a mess. And yet I sensed at once that there was something here...
...less than it has been scored upon. The sharp passing line of Johnny Bucyk, Murray Oliver, and Tom Williams will be the sole bright spot for Boston fans. The chicken wire defense and lack of offensive depth will, barring a miracle, sink the Bruins deeper than ever into the cellar...
...Collector, by John Fowles. A taut thriller about a dour young man who spots the girl of his clouded dreams-and sets about getting her with a chloroformed gag, a getaway truck, and a cottage in the country that has a priest's hole in the cellar...