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...more modern times, probably no one's tongue cut deeper than that of Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Secretary, Harold Ickes. The Secretary accused Huey Long of having "halitosis of the intellect," but saved his sharpest darts for Thomas E. Dewey. When the New York Governor announced for the presidency, Ickes commented that "Dewey has thrown his diaper into the ring," and steadfastly refused to listen to Dewey's speeches because, he explained, "I have a baby...
...weekly publication. Almost simultaneously, Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien of New York University noted that several of his homosexual patients had the same weakened immune systems and were suffering from Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare cancer of the skin usually seen only in older men. Later that summer Dr. Harold Jaffe of CDC, while attending a conference in California, was told of an additional case of a young homosexual suffering from Kaposi...
...anyone is shocked by appearance money. Gerulaitis is unusually eloquent on the subject: "If a tournament uses his name, his picture, shots of his matches for the past six months, what's wrong with McEnroe getting a fee?" For one thing, it is against the Grand Prix rules. Harold Solomon, president of the Association of Tennis Professionals, likens it to political "graft." If a player is assured of a sum larger than the first prize just for showing up, his incentive to win is naturally lessened. Gerulaitis answers brightly, "What's the difference in prizefighting? Say a tennis...
GOOD ACTING OFTEN GETS WASTED in a bad play and that tragedy occurs in the Class Act Production's staging of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, currently at the Lyric Stage Theater in Boston. Pre performances by the three-woman cast are high powered and believable, yet the characters they play are one dimensional and difficult to understand...
...Democratic Club published its newsletter. Perspective, once this year, with articles focusing on the Chicago mayoral victory of Harold Washington, the ruckus at the Environmental Protection Agency, and the deteriorating right to abortion...