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...batting stance over the years in order to continue to be able to get around on the fastball (should anyone ever chance to throw him one). At the plate in recent seasons, he has been listing forward and holding on by his toenails. Hriniak talked him into a flatter swing this year. "Yaz is always looking for ways to get better," Hriniak says. "He has gotten the maximum ability out of himself. That's a true talent-not too many have...
...beginning of his career, says Dugger, Johnson was a fawning sycophant on the lookout for a useful mentor. He used his role as editor of the campus paper at Southwest Texas State Teachers College to flatter the school's president, who had made Johnson his assistant. Winning a Senate seat in 1948 by 87 votes out of nearly 1 million cast, "Landslide Lyndon" set about cultivating Georgia's powerful Richard Russell. He would invite Russell to dinner and coach his daughters to call the man Uncle Dick. That campaign paid off. When Russell was in line to become...
...Communist. Does a rather distant and chilly woman offer him social advancement and a way into Berlin's better artistic circles? Fine, he will marry her and quietly send for his mistress once he has settled into his new career in the capital. Do the Nazis flatter him, indulge him and eventually offer him the directorship of a great state theater? All right, he will reshape his famous performance as Mephistopheles in Faust to suit their totalitarian purposes. They represent, as far as he can see, no more than the next step in his irresistible rise. At first, they...
...good reason." The Tonka Toy Co. ran an ad that showed one of its toy trucks surviving a stomping by an elephant. Horowitz got his own Tonka and submitted it to pachyderm pummeling at the Los Angeles Zoo. When the vehicle was removed from the cage, it was crushed flatter than a shadow...
...thick arm hair; a 5 o'clock shadow darkens Cary Grant's cleft chin; Lana Turner's forehead is marred by blemishes; and the Frank Sinatra of 1945 resembles a textbook definition of adenoidal irregularity. Kobal wisely concludes his collection at 1960. These days, color photographers flatter, airbrush and highlight cinema stars to idolized images. Lost is that earlier fragile humanity, peeking through the pancake makeup...