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...Word." Word Smith is a sagacious, grizzled and altogether senile old sportswriter with a penchant for alliteration and a lively obsession for the American idiomatic phrase. In the heyday of baseball -- the twenties, the thirties, the forties -- Smitty had written a column entitled "One Man's Opinion" for the Finest Family Newspapers chain. He covered the Patriot League, and most particularly the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless team in the history of the game, and later found to be infested with Communists. At the time that Smitty is writing from the Old Folks' Home, all of the above organizations...
...many mysteries left over from the President's TV speech of April 30 is why he gave such lavish praise to Haldeman and Ehrlichman. If they were indeed among "the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know," why was he forcing them to resign? Was this praise the price for their going quietly (so far)? One prefers to think that it was an oblique acknowledgment of the President's own responsibility for the general style, if not all the specific acts of his staff, and that the President would now be wary of comparable "devotion...
This weekend had been billed as a classic pitching duel featuring three of the finest staffs in the nation; the strike-out artists of Cornell, the Cadet hurlers with the lowest ERA nationally and the great depth of Harvard. But the Crimson easily made a sham of the Army and Cayugan defense as they tallied a total of 17 runs in three games...
...finest anthropology library in the country has been squeezed into less than 6,000 square ft. Priceless rare books have not received proper storage, and students and staff alike have been forced to use this important resource under nearly intolerable conditions," Stephen Williams, director of the Museum, wrote in a recent library prospectus...
Listen, I just duked it out with one of Boston's finest dentists for possession of two of my wisdom teeth, so I'm in no particular mood to sacrifice what's left of my health on an altar of Wit. Which is okay, timing-wise, because it turns out that not a whole lot is happening in town this week. What you can do in the meantime is check out Jon Landau on Pop Philosophy in this week's Real Paper. And if you're rich and bored, visit a club; Howlin' Wolf is at Joe's, and good...