Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pair of bar bells so ponderous that his arms get stretched to floor-length; that night in bed, when his sock-clad feet poke out of the bottom of the covers, a pair of hands reaches out alongside to give them a sleepy scratch. But Lewis as the alter-ego maniac Buddy Love is a maudlin letdown. Starlet Stevens best sums up the trouble: "Just being one person is more than enough for any human being to handle...
Hilton's ego is as big as his house. He keeps the vanity press busy printing books praising himself, and his autobiography, Be My Guest, is in more of his hotel rooms than the Gideon Bible. A Roman Catholic who is relieved to be back in good standing after shedding Zsa Zsa, Hilton constantly composes prayers to the Almighty and has them printed in Hilton employee publications, likes to think that "God is a gentleman." His speeches are sometimes written by a Jesuit Priest, Father Thomas Sullivan of the University of Santa Clara, and at big receptions Hilton does...
...RBIs. Last year he supplied the punch (37 homers, 107 RBIs) that kept the upstart Angels in first division. But his big moment came in the second 1962 All-Star game: a sliding circus catch of George Altman's sinking liner that did wonders for Wagner's ego. "Al Kaline may be a better rightfielder than I am," Wagner now concedes expansively. "But he's a magician. Roger Maris is good too-but nothing special. I'm at least as good...
Died. Tex O'Rourke, 77, magnificently mustachioed wit and bon viveur, a onetime Texas Ranger, boxer (his manager: Bat Masterson), fight manager (his tiger: Jess Willard, who kayoed Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson in 1915), and since 1937, "chief executioner of fall guys" for the ego-busting Circus Saints and Sinners; following prostatic surgery; in Manhattan. Of Ike he once said: "The greatest warrior from Kansas since Carry Nation." Of Kennedy: "I thought the new President wasn't likely to make any mistakes-that they were all made. But I underestimated...
...incarnation of Woden offering himself to the goddess of the forest. Even the shepherd Brace defends is not merely an old reprobate but a kind of Ur-brigand descended from the race of Jacob. As for the fox: Is he a fox? He may be Brace's alter ego. He may even be man himself, close to madness and ready to spread destruction in the world...