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Here is Evelyn Waugh, "extraordinarily like a loquacious woman, with dinner jacket cut like maternity gown to hide his bulging stomach . . . playing this part of a crochety old character rather deaf, cupping his ear - 'feller's a bit of a Socialist I suspect.' Amusing for about a quarter of an hour." Here is Graham Greene delighted when a bomb from the blitz hits his house, symbolizing not only the end of his estate, but of his marriage; Arthur Koestler, "all antennae and no head," and Novelist Rose Macaulay "looking immensely aged, everything about her having diminished except...
Being in front is a happy but hazardous position in what is shaping up as the most volatile G.O.P. primary campaign since the Goldwater-Rocke-feller-Scranton battles of 1964. The race, as well as the frame of mind of the voting public, is not only volatile but deceptive. "In primaries you never know what the voters mean," said raspy-voiced, chainsmoking Gerald Carmen, Reagan's shrewd coordinator in New Hampshire. "Are they just looking, just talking, just thinking?" Reagan himself had a euphoric answer. "I don't know about the hierarchy and the upper regions; I know about...
...Name the young Tiger who defeated Bob Feller and the Cleveland Indians to win the 1940 American League Pennant...
...Time" Buffett does a 6-minute monologue called "God's Own Drunk," wherein the hero is guarding a still, gets overcome by temptation, takes a few slashes, commences to get hot flashes, metamorphoses into God's Own Drunk and a fearless man, then sees "The Bear...a Kodiak-looking feller, bout 19 feet tall," who rambles over and "looks me in the eyes, and mine were a lot redder than his. It hung him up." It's not enough because the spell is shattered--Buffett succumbed just once, but it's shadow of things to come...
With a fastball that has been clocked at 100.9 m.p.h. (3 m.p.h. faster than Bob Feller's and 7 m.p.h. faster than Sandy Koufax's), Ryan's influence on a game isn't surprising. Nor is his record. He has struck out more batters (383) in a single season than anyone in baseball history, pitched as many no-hitters (3) as Feller, and has thrown four one-hitters, six two-hitters and 14 three-hitters. This year, after two seasons as a 20-game winner, Ryan is setting a 30-win pace with eight victories...