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...Georgia Senate seat eventually developed into a bare-knuckle brawl between Democrat Sam Nunn, 34, and Republican Congressman Fletcher Thompson, 47. As the campaign reached its climax, Nunn happily swung a devastating haymaker: Opponent Thompson during his six years in Congress had dropped 119 bills into the hopper, but not one had ever made it out of committee. "He's just interested in headlines," snorted Nunn. Nunn's ridicule was helped along by some Thompson gaffes. The Congressman, who pilots his own plane, at one point scheduled an airport press conference and then proceeded to the wrong airport...
...bronze Coming Through the Rye-a typical example of the vulgar, illustrative fist that Remington, artist laureate to the Wild West, brought to everything he touched-became the most expensive American sculpture in history, at $125,000. The previous record for an American watercolor ($36,000 for an Edward Hopper in 1970) was broken three times-by another Hopper, Light at Two Lights, at $50,000; a Winslow Homer, Adirondack Catch, at $37,500; and Charles Burchfield's Black Iron, which brought $65,000. That same week, another and very fine Homer-Gallows Island (Bermuda)-also went...
Giant. Minor bits by James Dean and Dennis Hopper illuminate this baggy epic from the Edna Ferber bestseller. CH.4. Two parts. Sat. 9 p.m., Mon. 9 p.m. Color...
...spring training, the slurs continued. Once, after watching Robinson pull off a dazzling play in the field, Rickey exclaimed to Montreal Manager Clay Hopper, "That was a superhuman play!" Hopper, a Mississippian, drawled, "Mr. Rickey, do you really think a nigger's a human being?" Hopper was also doubtful about how well Robinson would fare against big-league pitching. Before one exhibition game, former Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Paul Derringer volunteered to help Hopper, an old friend, find out. "Tell you what I'm going to do, Clay," Derringer said. "I'm going to knock him down...
...Hopper's bias toward Robinson soon turned to open admiration. In the season's first game, Robinson collected four hits, including a three-run homer, stole two bases and scored four runs. But the taunting cries of "Go home spook!" and "Kill the jungle bunny!" still echoed from the bleachers, both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line. During one game in Syracuse, the opposing team turned a black cat loose on the field, shouting that it was the "black boy's cousin." Robinson responded by drilling a double to left. In 1946, after leading...