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...best player is an uncomplicated farm hand, a real "Hick from French Lick [Ind.]." (Jerry West probably never really was-and certainly never wanted to be-"Zeke from Cabin Creek [W. Va.].") When asked the condition of a busted thumb or punctured cheekbone, Bird naturally replies: "Broke." Long, loose-limbed and 25, he shambles when he walks. His hair is as ruly as alfalfa and his complexion as adolescent as measles. From top to bottom, a distance measured to be 6 ft. 9 in., Bird could not be whiter if he were a professional blood donor. His yellow mustache suggests...
...love my little town of Hollister, Calif. [March 22]. It is beautiful, serene and peaceful, yet, at the same time, it is also industrial, agricultural, recreational and residential. We are not the little hick town described in your story "California: Tremors on the Fault." Our town does have earthquakes, which have left much evidence. But they are sporadic and insignificant in scale...
...Harvard Band Drinking Contest," Johnson laughs proudly. "There is this annual party after the Brown game where all the freshmen drink 'Brown Punch' which is made of bourbon and apple cider. I must've had about 20 cuts of that stuff--I beat out some 200-pound hick from Missouri, too," she adds...
...Success sold more than three million copies, and Molloy says he has served, incredibly, as consultant to 380 of the Fortune 500. If this book equally successful, this may be the decade of the social ubermensch, the lies of which will make Bill Buckley look like a country hick...
...there to tell all interested about the life of his college friend. One can only think that Walter Lippmann himself might have been the best eyewitnesses for Reed's life from the day both of them walked into Harvard Yard until his interment in the Kremlin. But Granville Hick's 1936 The Making of a Revolutionary and Robert A. Rosenstone's Romantic Revolutionary give the facts...