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...never played baseball. "My dad, he bought me a glove for $2.98, and he used to bribe me with nickels and dimes to play catch," he recalls. In 1950, a Negro league scout spotted him playing softball, and he became a barnstormer with the Kansas City Monarchs. "Ten-fifteen -maybe twenty thousand miles a year, and our biggest night was in Hastings, Neb.." says Banks. "We got $15 apiece...
...After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops of Hiroshima-a powder charge sent one uranium mass bullet-ing through a hollow shaft into the other mass. In one fifteen-hundredth of a microsecond, fission began. In that dreadful instant a city died, and 70,000 of its inhabitants...
...Fifteen-year old Anthony ("writer, artist, translator, hack; gambler, sensualist, fool ... onlooker at his own ruin") spies Christine ("white tennis costume... dove gray fur jacket ... full of fun") in a tea-room, launching 18 years of unrequited love...
...fact, little but the bare skeleton of his life and literature is known. He resolved to "write perfectly of beautiful happenings," and spewed forth fifteen volumes of a Biography, the endless reincarnation of Dom Manuel down through the centuries. He was unquestionably one of America's greatest writers--shrouded today in the anonymity of vogue...
...public record is concerned, Cotton still holds the title, although he says he has filed with Goldfine a letter stating that he was Goldfine's agent in buying the hotel and would turn the property over to Goldfine or to Lebandale Mills whenever desired. Fifteen years later, the transfer has still not been desired...