Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ETHEL somebody...took Broadway by storm in a show called Girl Crazy the Gershwin boys wrote, did all right in Anything Goes and Du-Barry Was a Lady, made a palpable hit in Annie Get Your Gun, bowled'em over in Call Me Madam...but I can't for the life of me remember her name. Anyway, she played Madame Rose in the original Gypsy and I never thought anyone would have the nerve to replace her. But this Tolentino kid's all right. So's the show...
Harvard was sluggish, so Wilson inserted his youngbloods -- sophomores Jerry O'Neil, Ernie Hardy, and junior Johnson. It was a smart move. After about five minutes of frustratingly sloppy ball-handling and shooting, Hardy began to clear the boards. Johnson moved the ball, and O'Neil heated up his gun...
...letters. As translated in the King James version, Romans 2:9 vows "tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile." In Jordan's phrasing, the threat comes out: "Hellfire and brimstone upon every son of a gun who works for the wrong, whether he's a 'superior' white or a Negro." Romans 1:25 excoriates those "who changed the truth of God into a lie"; this becomes, in Jordanese, "These wise guys swapped God's truth for an outright lie." 1 Thessalonians...
...Then I slam his head down on the table, and it breaks a couple of beer bottles. The last I see of him, he's crawling out the door on his hands and knees. Later I find out he's a small-time hood and packs a gun. I've never been back there since...
Nobody who has ever known Bobby Hull could doubt the story. It was, remembers the senior Robert Hull, 57, "a cold son-of-a-gun of a night" in Point Anne, Ont., when the doctor delivered his fifth child (of eleven) and announced: "The only difference between your son and you is that he doesn't eat so much." Bobby weighed 12 Ibs. at birth. His father, a 240-lb. cement worker, could lift the front end of a car, and he was also a fair country hockey player-which is what folks do to keep warm...