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...written a benchmark biography that fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell at his table at Manhattan's celebrity hangout, the Stork Club. Gabler captures everything except the essence of Winchell's breathless dot-dot-dot tabloid style. Never does the author parse an entire column or broadcast to make Winchell accessible to a generation that only dimly recalls him as the narrator of the 1960s TV series The Untouchables. A few days before the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Winchell wrote that...
...Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, between TV appearances and clothes-shopping expeditions, Whitestone receives a guest. Dressed in a T shirt and a polka-dot vest and pants, she is an enthusiastic and fluent conversation partner. She readily acknowledges not being part of Deaf culture -- "I don't know it very well. I have seen it" -- and tends to refer even to small d deaf as "them...
...seem a mere dot on a theoretical horizon, but you will eventually leave here, most likely with a degree. And when "that dirty gray turmoil" of the real world swirls around you, clouding and obscuring the friendships that have been formed here, it seems likely that we will look back on this place with glasses colored pink with memories...
...quietly. But the "sports-as-entertainment" mentality, I think, is disappearing with us. Gone is "the spectacle," to be replaced by "Personality." You'll hear an awful lot about Sean Wissman's Kansas upbringing in the next year and dot pictures on the editorial page, perhaps...
Such homeward allusions may dot our prose from time to time--so be it. Me, I know the Braves' pitchers and catchers report to West Palm Beach on February 17, and I can't wait. But the Harvard men's hockey team visits Princeton February 4, and such events must, by definition, be my focus this year...