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Eighty miles away in the Pennsylvania Dutch country, Muhammad Ali sings the Tennessee Waltz while he spars with Light-Heavyweight Boss Man Jones. "He's got me in the coffin, but he can't nail me," Ali boasts. "He fights like a woman." Ali clinches with Jones and dances round the ring at his isolated, frontier-style training complex, where he sleeps in a cabin equipped with pump-handle faucets and coal stoves. "Tie him up," Ali laughs. "Waltz with him. That's the way you stall for time...
Maybe it's too corny for the cosmopolitan frame of mind, or the confirmed cynic who demands perfection from himself, but Nickel Mountain leaves you feeling that there is an order to life. At the end of the book an old couple watch their son's coffin winched out of a grave. The woman shouts "I believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The man yells, "Shut up." In the solemn eyes of Henry Soames, where everything has some value, and you "don't shoot at everything that moves on the theory it might be a rattler," even this scene...
McCarthy helped end the career of the Wisconsin Senator. Fourteen years later, St. Clair represented Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin during his trial in Boston for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion. More recently, he represented the Boston school committee in its lengthy attempt to avoid desegregation of the city's public schools. Explains St. Clair: "My politics have nothing to do with my professional representation...
...moonlight. Each is lulled to a deep tenderness. She confesses her secret, her virginity; he reveals that he had no intention of selling the land. Then, in a great, stormy, self-lacerating monologue, James explains why he is so hateful to himself. He had accompanied his mother's coffin on a tram from the West Coast to the East. Even drink could not blot out the pain of her death...
Died. Errett Lobban Cord, 79, who built the streamlined, low-slung, coffin-nosed Cord automobile of the 1930s; of a heart attack; in Reno. After selling cars in Chicago, Cord became president of the failing Auburn Automobile...