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Blue Eyes. But the crowds that turned out for the mayor were encouraging. They oohed, they aahed, and they touched. Lindsay moved smoothly, confidently, charismatically through a bustling shopping center. His Florida chairman, State Senator Edmond Gong, declared how he would sound the bell for his candidate: "We're going to do a lot of walking." The schedule went without a hitch, thanks to the planning of Advance Man Sid Davidoff, who had run into initial hostility in Miami. He had been kicked out of his hotel for walking his dog Horse in the lobby and by the pool...
...joked. In fact, he was a quiet and often private man, even though he spent much of his career on the lecture circuit. He would recite his marvelously serpentine and breathlessly amuck alexandrines like a tenor testing the limit of his lungs, terminating at last in a long-awaited gong of rhyme. His versifications made the bespectacled and gamesomely civilized poet something of a celebrity. His accent ("clam chowder of the East Coast-New England with a little Savannah at odd moments") was sometimes heard on radio's "Information, Please!" and the Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee hours...
...large dogs, one black, one white, are led into the room on leashes. Several men, Superiors, enter in black cloaks that have special colored panels in them. A gong is sounded to begin the Assembly...
Timekeeper Gary Farneti hit the bell, which sounded like a gong, and the boxers charged each other with arms flying. A strange breeze swept into the crowd as haymaker after roundhouser missed their marks with uncanny accuracy...
...Santa Paula moves down the Hudson toward the sea, my first faint yearnings for a cigarette coalesce into raving desire. A quick drink only magnifies the pangs. The dinner gong bongs and I meet my tablemates: we loathe each other on sight. One sucks on dummy cigarettes. Another is clearly going to have no trouble quitting: he is too loaded to light a cigarette. Says Hy, a Newark businessman: "We are all compulsive suicides...