Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakup of his marriage and the decline of his fortunes. In 1958, owing $50,000 in taxes, he moved to a working-class neighborhood in Paris. During the '60s, he wrote gloomy memoirs under the titles Not Dying and Don't Go, but If You Must, Say Hello to Everybody. His novel Boys and Girls Together (1963) took a bleak view of marriage...
Today, by his own account, McKinney is as much a Quincy House institution as the collection he has rebuilt. "People around here commonly call me the Comic Czar," he says, nodding at his private collection which he estimates at more than $1500. "You know--'Hello Czar' or 'Good morning, Czar.'" As he speaks, a Quincy House neighbor walks by, bows deeply, and intones, "Salaam, Czar, salaam...
THIS DICHOTOMY could form the book's badly-needed central theme but Dickson unfortunately bumbles. Some of his anecdotes are telling and funny: Fiedler's annual conversation with the New England Provision Company before his end-of-season bash always went: "Hello Sam? Fiedler, here. It's time for that goddam party again." But others do not appear to deserve their build-up, in spite of Dickson's chatty "he told me" style. Neither the maestro nor the family and colleagues Dickson interviewed were strong on bon mots. Certain points simply beg for detail. Dickson lauds Fiedler's genuis...
...Hello, we're from Cottage...
Walter Hriniak came by to say hello, and Jerry Remy waved, and Don Zimmer chatted about being manager of the Texas Rangers...