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Presidential Aspirant Fritz Rollings last week referred to his fellow presidential aspirant John Glenn as "this joker." Among the political cognoscenti that may have been the second biggest story of the week, outranked only by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's electoral tidal wave. Invective can be hazardous on the hustings in these timorous days...
...best lemon tart, cognoscenti should head for Jane Grigson 's Fruit Book (Atheneum; $19.95). Here are disquisitions on 46 different fruits, with recipes for virtually every single one, from apples, the world's first fruit, to watermelon, one of the last to arrive in the author's native England...
Cautioning himself against fatalism, he addressed the ball after a round of polite applause. The gallery consisted of a few golf cognoscenti, out to see potential comers on the tour. They all recognized him by now. ("There's Jackson." "He'll be past his prime before he makes the tour.") Bogart Jackson twirled his three-wood and considered the heavily-forested 18th and its narrow fairway. Scanning the three bunkers on the left, he was distracted by a couple of stragglers making their way through the woods. And then, he spotted Her. She was with the Husband. They were about...
Opening excercises are a nice touch for the parents, but the cognoscenti stay away. The bigwigs will spend a couple of hours trying to convince you they have nothing better to do than welcome and address you. Don't be fooled; they do. Besides, if you heard Guy Vander Jagt or Mo Udall give a keynote speech this summer, you've probably listened to enough rhetoric to last till 1984. When, as the intelligentsia secretly know, the world will...
...what many accredited members of baseball's cognoscenti call the best World Series ever, the Red Sox are edged in seven games by the Red Stockings of Cincinnati in a hosiery hoedown. Tony Perez (now with the Red Sox) wrecks Boston with a towering blast of southpaw and genius Bill Lee (now with the Expos), undoing the sixth-game heroics of Cartlon Fisk and the grace of centerfielder Fred Lynn...