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...deeps of the American society, then for reasons unclear suddenly roil to the surface, disturbing the waters and making reasoned discourse impossible. Talking to plants was a minor instance a couple of years ago. People who had always talked to their plants abruptly decided to come out of the closet, as if at a signal. Before the week was out, it seemed, the air waves and the public prints were awash with the commentary of glibsters who said that, by George, something, ; maybe whisky vapors, made talked-to plants grow better. By the end of a fortnight, sturdy, feet...
...traps." Anthony ("Fat Tony") Salerno, a gambler and loan shark who was indicted last week on charges of running a $10 million-a-year numbers operation in Manhattan, used to keep more than $1 million in small bills packed in shoe boxes stacked from floor to ceiling in a closet of his apartment on West End Avenue...
...DOES, he risks the chance that someday when no one is around to shield him, the screws will drag him into a closet and "gang-splash" him, like they did Mona. So Smitty submits. But not for long, as Queenie convinces him that he could become a "politician" and a "hippo," too. The next time Rocky calls him to the shower, Smitty acquaints his patron with the floor of the crapper--and now he's the "old man" in the block...
...true), a $200,000 a year salary, although admittedly a colossal amount, is hardly outrageous or ludicrous. But, how can one honestly say that a ballplayer is really worth that much money. Such salaries cause the baseball fan to either shake his head in disgust or rummage through his closet for the old Little League equipment and get in condition for next year's amateur draft...
...this day, as most days lately, the place was alive with wonder. Stevie Cauthen, the most exciting 16-year-old jockey anybody can remember, was continuing to transform elderly platers into Pegasuses. "The kid is so hot he's got three agents," said Patrick W. Lynch, a closet intellectual who is a vice president of the New York Racing Association. "Lenny Goodman gets him his mounts. Mark McCormack, who handled people like Jack Nicklaus, sets up side deals. Swifty Lazar, Nixon's agent, is arranging the book...