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Frank Kilduff, a buyer for a Chelsea, Mass., building-materials jobber, has been "on allocation," as he puts it, from Certain-Teed since May. Now he must place orders by mail instead of telephone; Certain-Teed then calls to ask where Ki] duffs allowed two weekly truckload should be sent. Complains William Rich owner of a Wellesley, Mass., insulation-installing firm: "I'm backed up four months Since July I have been getting 300 to 400 bags of fiber glass a month, and I need a minimum...
...father of 13 children, should receive a complimentary vasectomy as remuneration for services rendered. Equally boring are Clarke's tax problems, his alimony difficulties, his spinal injury, and the roster of literary celebrities and other personalities whom Clarke has met in the lobby of New York's Chelsea Hotel. Outside of Clarke and his accountant, lawyer and doctor, who really cares...
...your time was up you got back in line and waited for an hour or an hour and a half until your turn came again. Once you had your shot you consigned yourself to the bleachers and passed time with the monitor and reporters from WBUR and the Chelsea Clinton news before you could reach the floor for a second time. Once given the baton you'd try to run past the crowds, but it took five minutes to get to the floor. There was a great temptation not to return the pass. But two things, the rumor that Washington...
...Cronin (the short graying guy with the cigar behind the bar) about Norman Mailer '43. He'll remember Mailer only as the guy who didn't pay his bills. Anyway, Cronin's is filled with working people who talk about local sports--"if only that kid from Chelsea hadn't dropped the punt in the second quarter B.C. wouldn't have lost 41-15"--and empathetic intellectuals; it's enormity, size-wise, gets you psychically out of cramped Harvard Square...
Suddenly, Lynn's bat launches the ball in the direction of Chelsea. It lands instead in the Sox bullpen. Fifty-seven years later, the Sox rule the world...