Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gall, he is a sucker for other people's promises and a happily shameless manipulator of his own. His gravel-voiced oratory beats at the unwary with the brass of a top sergeant and the blarney of a sideshow barker. To doubt his most outrageous argument is to deal him a mortal affront. But doubters there are. For Walter is a complicated soul. When there are two ways to do a thing, he chooses the oblique. Part leprechaun and part literal-minded lawyer, he disconcerts friends with a Groucho Marxist air of insincerity. Yet he walks among foes with...
...necessary real estate for next to nothing, and the Dodgers were handled like benefactors of the body politic. Still O'Malley played coy. He insisted that he would stay in Brooklyn if he could. But between the time he spoke to Wrigley and the time he announced the deal, he had visited Los Angeles. He scarcely wasted a glance on the small (23,000), antiquated Wrigley Field, where his newly acquired Los Angeles Angels played their games. There was a place called Chavez Ravine that he wanted to see. Walter took one look at the slumbering goat pasture just...
...Angeles, he learned to his dismay, was not about to give away Chavez Ravine on O'Malley's terms. "The thing got more and more confusing," he admits. "I finally asked, 'Well, who's the big guy out here? Who do I have to deal with...
...answer was: no one. As Hoodlum Mickey Cohen once wailed, when asked who got the political payoff for a gangster's operations in Southern California: "There's no politics in Southern California you can deal with. It's anarchy...
...admits he is wearying of the daily grind. All questions about the future are referred by Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 44, to Editorial Page Editor Robert Lasch, 51, who took over in October of last year, has given deft direction to the crusades of the idealistic, New Deal-leaning PD. "Maybe Mauldin will be taken on as a kind of understudy to Fitz," says Lasch. "But maybe we won't like Mauldin, and maybe he won't like us. I really don't know what will happen...