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...told the court that, in being his own counsel, he knew he "had a fool for a client." The court made no comment...
...legal ones. The breast-stroke was probably the first stroke over used, and it has been retained as a racing event largely because of sentiment over its historical background. Since Mann's proposal would make the classic breast-stroke unrecognizable and more and more like the crawl, these dissenters fool that the breast-stroke should be retained as it is or else completely abandoned in favor of the crawl...
...important thing, he said, is to be prepared. "The less we prepare, the more we invite disaster," he stated. "Though by preparing for what may never come we may feel like fools, it is that kind of fool that will win this...
Founder Joseph William Gray was a testy little Jeffersonian who declared in the first scrawny issue of the Plain Dealer that "the stupid fool who cannot, in this age of thrilling events, 'throw some fire into his writings ought to throw his writings into the fire.' " Cleveland was then a mudhole of 6,000 population and six newspapers, including the Eagle-Eyed News Catcher. Editor Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came...
...wealth, affable and loquacious Dr. Souchon sells few of his pictures because he doesn't want to compete unfairly with fellow artists who have to make a living with paint. But occasionally some art lover manages to talk him into a sale. He chortles: "If any damn fool wants to pay $500, all right!" Because the art world has not yet crowed much over the effusive, highly personal charm of his work, his exhibitions have been few. For this lack, Surgeon Souchon makes up by holding private showings himself in the mahogany-brown library of his office suite...