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...about that time he began sending false radio messages. It appears that he intended to fill the old log with fake entries and throw the new one away when he landed. And while his jottings became more distressed, the tape recordings he did for the BBC became increasingly chipper. "I feel in tremendous shape," he taped a week before his last navigational log entry. "There is nothing like going to sea for getting rid of all the poisons in your body...
Pleuthner himself is no less eccentric than his home. Wheezing and bent with age, he is nonetheless chipper and determined as a bright sparrow. A practicing architect since 1906, he has some 50 lavish country residences to his credit, including his own beleaguered castle. Lately he has returned to his second vocation of artist (he exhibited in the great 1913 Armory Show in New York). Although the fire in 1963 forced him to move to a rented apartment, the house remains his studio, without running water or electricity...
...Nonetheless, Stokes emerged from the primary as the clear favorite in the general election. He was an experienced, chipper, charismatic campaigner who could beguile white suburban clubwomen at tea and rap with soul brothers in Hough. He was a Democrat in a town that had not elected a Republican mayor in the past 26 years. And his opponent was Seth Taft, 44, who bore the multiple burdens of a stiff presence, the wrong party label plus nephewship to the "Mr. Republican" who co-authored the Taft-Hartley Act, longtime anathema to organized labor...
Nelson Rockefeller took Bonamine pills to ward off seasickness, but was otherwise chipper. He lectured on the political dividends of promoting culture, huddled a number of times with Romney, and insisted: "I don't want to be President." When questioned on this score, Reagan first answered wittily enough: "I have a carry-over from my previous occupation. I never take the other fellow's lines." Then Ronnie lapsed into supersincerity by saying that "the convention, the party and the people of the U.S. will make that decision. It is not relevant what someone's personal desires might...
...admit that the air and the streets are still dirty, the city's sources of new income meager, the ghettos wallowing in misery. What makes him different is that he really believes that something can be done about it -practically a political heresy in cynical New York City. Chipper and resilient at 45, even if his fair hair has greyed a bit along with his image, Lindsay is often accused of being a cross between Don Quixote and a spinsterish schoolmarm because of his sometimes rigid righteousness and such of his fancies as "the Athenian idealization of public service...