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...promises that an aide will call within a day or two. He looks for a woman in a sea of men in the audience. When a young woman asks him bluntly about mortgage rates and plaintively wonders: "Will I ever have a house?" the President flashes that still gleaming grin. "I think I'll skip the women and go back to the gentlemen," he jokes, eyes crinkling. And then he addresses the question...
...take criticism with good humor and heed some advice. After the Washington Post reported that a TV correspondent had to search through hours of videotape to find any film showing him waving and smiling, the candidate walked out on a stage at the University of Maine with a big grin and a wave. Then he told the responsive crowd that he had just read the Post article. When a reporter asked in a Boston press conference why he could take days off when his campaign was lagging, Anderson bristled, asking: "Would you begrudge me one day off out of seven...
...villain, he's a romantic hero. And Larry Hagman is the new Clark Gable, with that same mixture of sex, charm and cruelty, the same devilish grin-and the same sweeping broad-brimmed...
...couple of Wyoming delegates were slipping away. Would Strauss call them? "Yeah, give me that phone," he said. Strauss got his man, purred into the phone about needing every vote and talked about returning to Wyoming to hunt with the delegate. Strauss's face broke into a grin as he put down the receiver. "We got those two back," he told Jordan. Strauss is a man who knows the value of a swap. He had raised money for many of the politicians here, done them countless favors, and now he was collecting for his side in return...
...often during the Republican Convention, I decided I'd wear these to this one." Every day he had several story ideas ready before the live broadcast began. Once one of them was aired he would begin improvising. "Everything," he said, "is happening right now." He added with a grin: "If there's no drama, I'll turn to human interest-like the 26-year-old woman who has five kids and never had time for a honeymoon so she opted to come to the convention as her honeymoon...