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DIED. MEL ALLEN, 83, sportscaster whose tenor-toned Alabama drawl became the voice of the New York Yankees; in Greenwich, Connecticut...
...Wednesday, after sitting vigil with Brown's wife and family, he paid a visit to the Commerce Department. Speaking without notes, the President thrummed into his preacher stance, drawing on Scripture from memory, invoking the Baptist lessons he knows in his bones and letting the richness of his drawl do its work while he eulogized Brown as a "magnificent life-force" who "walked and ran and flew through life...
...another's short, cryptic statements--"I'm tapped out," "I can't"--is intended to be disturbing but the rhythm of these sections is off, often falling into a singsong that destroys the intended effect. The style is further undermined by the fact that Flee's valley-girl drawl, while effective for the character, is to mindless and unsympathetic to carry the evocative overtones that this kind of dialogue obviously intends...
DIED. H.L. STEVENSON, 65, journalist; after a long illness; in Stamford, Connecticut. Stevenson's combination of folksy wit, a strategically deployed Southern drawl and unbending standards made him a living legend at the UPI wire service where, over 31 years, he rose from reporter to editor in chief. Early assignments included the emerging civil rights movement; his tenure at the top coincided with the fall of Richard Nixon and the re-emergence of China, where Stevenson played a key role in the opening of Western news bureaus...
...runner Bob Dole, he remains little known outside Texas and Washington. And though he is considered one of the most skilled manipulators of the media in politics, he is in some ways ill suited to national exposure. He is, by his own description, "ugly." He speaks in a deep drawl that calls to mind the often grating cadences of Lyndon Johnson. Combine that with his certain endorsement by many right-to-life groups, and an image emerges of an ungainly, deep-fried reactionary with little chance of carrying the moderate vote on Election Day. His droning, pedantic keynote speech...