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...hanging out like the tongue of a Saint Bernard." The court, of course, had some serious cases, not the least of which involved a woman who complained violently about speeding on Mount Vernon Road. When state troopers finally set up a roadblock, "the lady who made all the fuss was herself picked up for unreasonable speed driving to the post office, and to crown the lily, was picked up 15 minutes later on her return trip. She has since left town...
...sort of cigar-chomping depilated bear who shambles around in his ill-kept cave. A Friday night poker-playing crony judges Matthau by a Rorschach test of his refrigerator: "I saw milk standing in there that wasn't even in the bottle." By contrast, Carney is a fuss-budgety fanatic of cleaning and cooking. The kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder; he claims more symptoms than there are diseases. Matthau grouses that his fidgety roommate is "the only man in the world with...
...Unseemly Fuss. Gross had talked about promising-sounding plans for decentralizing the school system, for curriculum changes, for integration without disruption: nothing came of them. He even failed to fill the key post of deputy superintendent in charge of personnel. During one time of crisis he was in Los Angeles-recuperating from pneumonia but well enough to make a speech; during another he was in Honolulu on vacation. He got into an unseemly public fuss with the board to get his salary raised from 540,000 to $45,000 a year...
...years he was President Eisenhower's press secretary, ticked off some new grievances last week. Speaking before the New York State Broadcasters Association in Albany, N.Y., he charged that TV newscasters either "overdo it or lose themselves in a mass of electronic hodgepodge." Recalling all the endless fuss the press made over Ike's illnesses, Hagerty asked whether it was worthwhile, when President Johnson caught the flu, to "flood the air with special programs and breathless bulletins that couldn't help but give the impression that his life was at stake, when actually it wasn...
Look, One Hand. At an exhibition in Caracas last week, Hahn walked down a line of six balls, swinging onehanded and switching from left to right, knocked them 130 yds. or so. He drove 225 yds. off a tee 3 ft. high, poked fun at golfers who fuss about leaves and such around their ball, by covering his ball with a sheet of newspaper and picking it off cleanly. Hooking and slicing madly, Hahn cracked: "To a lot of you, these shots aren't too unusual." Then he boomed a perfect screamer 250 yds. down the middle. "I just...