Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pennsylvania's budget director, was not interested. Then the Administration's recruiting effort turned to athletic types. Talent scouts tried to get John Pont, former head coach of Yale and now at Indiana University. Pont, who actively supported Nixon and was the President's occasional golf companion, said that he wanted to "coach a little longer." A similar reply came from Paul Dietzel, head coach at the University of South Carolina...
...tells a complete story, the editing gets worse. Dille apparently considers the strip an historical artifact rather than a good story. In the selection of Sunday strips which follows, he cuts one story off arbitrarily to make room for an example from a later period. Black Barney and his companion Buddy Deering have just escaped from a Martian slave labor camp, and are looking for some way to remove the remote control bombs which the Martians have welded around their waists. In the last panel, Barney realizes that he has forgotten to dismantle the radio detonators which can blow them...
...tales are old-fashioned in the way that a box-Brownie snapshot of a posed family group seems to belong to some other time; they have much the same kind of truth and absurd dignity. Samples: ∙BLIND LOVE. A short novel, really. Blind London banker has secretary-companion with birth mark that spreads a liver stain from below a high blouse-collar over one breast. Her husband left her after one night. Banker has house with swimming pool within easy Rolls Royce distance of London. He likes to swim, she cannot. Also on hand is a quack faith healer...
...back to his roots in country music and still move his own music forward. De Ole Folks at Home, the companion disk to Giant Step, proves as much. The very title gives you pause: it promises an instant replay of an immense tradition. But some of the work he does in that tradition is original and versatile. In "A Little Soulful Tune" he fashions a complete. song with hands and voice alone...