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...office, you have probably had to wash your curtains once a month-a total of 96 times-to keep them only reasonably clean." At a home rally, Lefkowitz asked: "Would any of you dream of hiring a man for four more years when he's been a flop for eight?" Time and again, Lefkowitz accused Wagner of indifference to New York's crime rate. Cried he: "The decent people of this community are sick and tired of being human footballs for the hoodlums, punks, sex degenerates and drug addicts who terrorize our streets and parks at night...
...Instant Flop. In an era of football specialization, versatile Paul Hornung, 25, seems as obsolete as the drop kick. He cannot rifle a pass with the artistic precision of a Unitas. He cannot crunch through the encircling arms of defensive linemen with the raw power of a Brown. He does nothing perfectly-but he does everything well. He runs, he passes, he kicks field goals and extra points. And he does one thing better than anyone else in pro football: scores points. Last year Hornung scored 176 to break an 18-year-old N.F.L. record; in five games this season...
...Heisman Trophy winner and two-time All-America, Hornung was drafted by the last-place Packers in 1957 as a quarterback-the same position he had played so successfully at Notre Dame. But in the pros he was an instant, dismal flop. "I couldn't even make the fourth string," he says. Because his handoffs were too slow, his passing mediocre, Hornung was used only sparingly in Packer games, was permitted to call only five specific plays. "In one game," he recalls, "a player saw me coming in and yelled, 'Look who's here-rollout right...
Lush, Be a Lady. In Conquer Your Alcoholism, Edward J. McGoldrick, billed as "Your Confidential Adviser" and actually director of the New York City Bureau of Alcoholic Therapy, is tough and blunt. "You are not sick," he snarls in Groove One. "You are a flop, a failure, a drunk." But in a companion volume called Tormented Women, the Truth About the Female Alcoholic, he becomes almost gallant, sympathetically acknowledging how difficult it must have been for his listener to buy the record. "You probably said it was for a friend. You couldn't allow even a total stranger...
...tallest building in the world was sold last week for the highest price ever paid for a single structure. For $65 million, Chicago Financier Henry Crown sold the 102-story Empire State Building, a flop when it was built in the Depression but a moneymaker now, to a syndicate headed by a personable Manhattan lawyer and real estate wheeler-dealer, Lawrence Wien...