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...soon absconded. On Army duty in the Pacific Northwest, he sought to make some side money raising potatoes for hungry settlers; the Columbia River flooded his fields. Posted to bleak Fort Humboldt on the California coast, Captain Grant pined for his wife Julia, the daughter of a Missouri country gentleman, and their two small boys. Depression led to drink, but it was the loneliness, not liquor, that prompted him to resign his commission. Working his father-in-law's land near St. Louis, he failed as a farmer; moving to town, he came to grief as a rent collector...
...Gentleman--and ladies--flex your muscles. The fourth annual Andrew Puopolo Memorial Wrist-Wrestling Tournament is about to begin...
...Penthouse trial, Spence used a typical strategy: portraying his client as a simple, small victim of big malign forces. To the six Cheyenne jurors, he characterized Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, 50, as an arrogant, unprincipled New Yorker, "the gentleman sitting over there in the velvet pants." When Guccione suggested that only people with the intelligence of a "flatworm" would think the disputed article was nonfiction, Spence, a University of Wyoming law graduate, began to refer to himself and fellow state residents as mere flatworms. He also listed 15 similarities between Pring and the protagonist of the article, which described...
...thought of asking the bloke how long he and his wife take, but luckily I caught my tongue in time. Instead, I showed him the clipping from London saying that I do quite a bit of preliminary wrestling and light biting, just like Alex Comfort recommends. Except for the gentleman from the Times, who wanted to know my feelings about the Laffer Curve, everybody wants to talk about sex. All that locker-room chortling about my "mission of love," "my furry virility" and that old joke about "pandaring" by zoo officials...
Contrary to many interpretations, Fuentes asserts that his works are not auto-biographical. "I find my own biography uninteresting within this larger (sociopolitical) canvas. Maybe one day I'll write a book of memoirs or publish my letters as an old gentleman...