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...would assume that Dukakis will choose Goreor Glenn," said Trumbull Professor of AmericanHistory Donald H. Fleming. "Dukakis needs Southernand he needs Midwestern votes. Gore would speak tothe Southern problem, and to the defense andforeign policy questions, while Glenn would helpin the Midwest...
...school- taught folks been talkin' about that story since Mark Twain made it up, about me and Jim floatin' on our raft down that monstrous big river, and Jim escapin' from slavery and me hiding him out. They say I did a big heroic thing in helpin' Jim get free, but that weren't it. Truth is, Jim helped me git free, 'cause if he hadn't made me realize that it was better to do something wrong that felt right, no matter how many educated people said it was wrong, like helpin' a runaway slave, then I wouldn...
...relied on benefits that are harder and harder to keep: "Maybe Social Security thinks I've lived too long." He goes on: "It's funny. When I see the Vietnamese who came over here, I just wonder how they start so fast. Get businesses and stuff. Somebody helpin' 'em. But the ones that fought for they country, been livin' here all along, we get treated like dirt...
Skynyrd's roots in British rock are obvious and there is little pretension in the album's music or the P.R. about the extent of their debt. Numbers like "Down South Jukin," "Preacher's Daughter" and "Lend a Helpin' Hand" would not have been written if the Rolling Stones and Cream had never recorded. "Comin' Home" owes its existence in part to the early Allman Brothers, the group that Skynyrd always played second Les Paul to until just before the end. And thrown in for filler are two songs by then drummer and vocalist Rickey Medlocke which...
...known. Among others, his decision saddens Fat Thomas, the 350-lb. New York bookie, who has gone so legit since Breslin began writing him up that he now works as an actor. "Jimmy says to hell with the big people," says Fat Thomas. "His whole thing is helpin' little people." Now Jimmy has decided to help himself. He has stopped writing his column for the New York Post*and five other papers partly because the $125,000 he conned out of publishers and ABC-TV last year is no longer enough...