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JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. A warm and witty portrait that reveals Johnson's Boswell was less a fool than he is sometimes thought to be, though perhaps more a fool than he ought to have been...
...year-old "maidens" who have yet to enter a race because of injury, inability or lack of seasoning. Of the remaining 27, fully a dozen are stakes winners, and another four have placed in stakes races. The star of the stable is Buckpasser, a son of Tom Fool, who won more money last year ($568,096) than any two-year-old in history, has won eight out of nine races so far this year-setting a world record (1 min. 32 ⅜sec.) for the mile in the process-and needs only to win this week's Travers Stakes...
SWEET CHARITY is a dance hall hostess, fortune's fool and no one's darling. Her unsuccessful attempts to remedy the situation provide the rather sad story for a very slick musical. As the doxy who requites the unrequited, Gwen Verdon is a dancing dynamo...
British Book Publisher Peter Wolfe ordered soup in an Italian restaurant, and the waiter served it with his thumb in it. Wordlessly sending it back, Wolfe wished he had had enough Italian to call the waiter "a dribbling, senile fool!" or at least snarl at him: "Tolga il suo sudicio dito dalla minestra!" (Get your dirty thumb out of the soup...
SWEET CHARITY is Fortune's fool and no one's darling. Her unsuccessful attempts to remedy the situation provide the rather sad story for a very slick musical. As the doxy who requites the unrequited, Gwen Verdon is a dancing dynamo...