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...really good ballplayer on the team was Second Baseman Rogers Hornsby. The club was $175,000 in debt; there was no money for a training trip that spring, not even enough for new uniforms-let alone for buying players on the open market. Rickey's answer was to invent the farm system, gaining control of minor-league clubs, using them as training schools for future stars. At first rival big-league bosses hooted at the idea-but they changed their tune when the Cardinal organization produced Rickey's famed "Gashouse Gang" managed by Frankie Frisch and featuring Dizzy...
...girl, and certainly not of that vintage, but now Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan, 44, has taken up a career that might fascinate her father. Scottie is writing about Washington society types, vintage 1965, for the New York Times. The trouble is that while Fitzgerald could sit down and wonderfully invent his parties in fiction, his daughter now has to track down all the gossip at balls and blasts. "Sometimes it's embarrassing," says she. "When you're asked to a real fancy one, the hostess doesn't want you to write about...
...never could invent an effective lie," Novelist Joseph Conrad once confessed. In this richly documented study, Author Jerry Allen demonstrates-with details assembled over a period of ten years from the four corners of the world -that most of Conrad's novels are scene-for-scene, character-for-character transmutations of the extravagant adventures of his youth...
...wildly about looking forward to growing old, "Old men can really cut loose. You should see those Old White Russian Aristocrats at any Salvadore Dali opening. Can they dress. WOW!" But it doesn't work. Tom Wolfe is the prisoner of an historical minute, which, if he didn't invent it, owes much of its definition and publication to his good offices. But soon there will great big cosmic TICK-TOCK and Wolfe will be on the wrong end or the freeway and the dark side of time...
...recognize and become accountable for his secular responsibilities. The problems of man on earth are within human powers to solve. Reliance upon the tenuous assistance of a celestial company can only dilute man's efforts and impede progress. It has been said, however, that God must be invented. If this is true, as it probably is, let's stop trying to invent the wrong kind. Above all, let's understand that we are part of the God-making process. A God may emerge a billion years from now, and if he does, some of his genes will...