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...This politics has no action. I'm only doing this because they pay me and my old man says Mills is a strong fella." He was about 17 and had no front teeth. "If you want action you should come down to the Guard Armory on Saturday and see the roller derby. There's action for you. They beat each other up, kicking with skates, they got women doing it, everything. And they do real fancy ballroom type stuff too. Roller skating is a real sport...
Seven other productions will open Thursday: "The Most Happy Fella"' at the Loeb Mainstage. "The Seagull" at the Loeb Ex, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society's "Trial by Jury" and "The Sorcerer" at Agassiz Theatre...
...stagy, depressingly familiar contest between Mayor John Lindsay and Governor Nelson Rockefeller. The mayor more or less threatens to shut down New York City for good unless he gets more money. The Governor responds with sympathetic noises about how he would like to help, but what can a fella do? Then somehow the two, with the reluctant assistance of the state legislature, manage to scrape together enough money to keep the city operating at its usual siege level...
...Once when he was 14, a white man called him nigger. Joe called the man cracker. As Joe recalls it now, "The man said, 'Come here, boy, and I'll straighten you out.' I told him, 'You come here,' and he did and, man, I straightened that fella out." Mamma?who forbade him to play football because she thought it was too dangerous?had a talk with Joe. "Son," she said, "if y'all can't get along with the white man in the South, y'all better leave home." Joe quit school, hitchhiked to Charleston and caught "the first...
...there is S.I. Hayakawa, "the nononsense, gutful chief of San Francisco State College." A Maury editorial this month urged Hayakawa's appointment as president of Harvard to "fumigate the campus Commies and anarchists." There is Spiro Agnew, in whom Maury perhaps sees something of himself. "I admire a fella," he told a recent visitor to his office, "who stands up on his feet and says what he thinks in words everybody can understand." But above all there is Richard Nixon, who, Maury feels, was "called to his exalted office by the Lord" as well as by the voters...