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...know two guys'll bet anything that moves. Pups, ponies, Perfectas, Trifectas, Superfectas, Daily Doubles, fly balls into a sunfield, anything. Quote 'em a line, and they'll have the money out and down before you can say "Jimmy the Greek took a bath in the Series." The Doc works in an office dominated by a half-size poster from the Big A that looks like "Nude Descending a Staircase," and has two front and center season seats for Celtics homegames that he probably bought out of profits. Everything I know--spreads, books, combinations, percentages--the works, I got from...
...tear up a $700,000 arrangement," Sherrill points out. "Here we can make the lead sheet of a song in the time it takes to sing it." Not that Sherrill is easygoing. "All the guys I use are machines," he snaps. "They do exactly what I want 'em to-if the record doesn't hit, I go down in flames...
After dinner, one of the men at the counter confides, "Those goddam hippies on welfare--you just can't keep 'em...
Still, with more than due respect and the grandfatherly twinkle of one who has seen 'em all come and go, West offers the reader a fly-on-the-wall view of such things as a housemaid and F.D.R., in turn, discovering House Guest Winston Churchill's proclivity for stomping around his rooms, chomping his cigar, stark naked. West recalls Harry Truman's unreconstructed Southern mother's downright refusal to sleep in Lincoln's bed. Lyndon Johnson's specially installed, multinozzled, Texas-strength shower nearly knocked the newly elected Nixon clear out of the bathroom...
...street and school will be renamed for Aaron. Cash rewards for returning Aaron home-run balls have attracted loyal bands of fans equipped with everything from catchers' mitts to lacrosse sticks and huge nets attached to fishing poles. "Of course, I'd like to hit 'em in front of 50,000 fans," says Aaron. "But when I cross the plate, I don't care if it's 2,000 or 50,000. It counts...