Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point to advances in the field of mental health, savings in Illinois' huge public-aid expenditures. But he has fumbled badly in efforts to reform Illinois' archaic tax structure, and not even his fellow Democrats would accuse him of being a dynamic leader. Said onetime Chicago Boss Jake Arvey recently in an unguarded moment: "Otto Kerner is an awful nice fellow, but I do wish he had some of Chuck Percy's brains...
...ever a feller needed a friend, it was Willie. And sure enough, a guardian angel appeared: Jacob Shemano, 51, president of San Francisco's Golden Gate National Bank. Jake Shemano looks more like a Hollywood Buddha than a banker; he favors green velvet shirts, smokes English Ovals like he was trying to give up Bantron, and originally became a good friend of Willie Mays, he explains, because "I am a very athletically inclined person myself." By mid-1963, he had talked Mays into depositing every cent of his $105,000 salary into the trust department of Golden Gate National...
Following Orders. As far as Say-Hey is concerned, Jake Shemano is "the best friend I have in the world." Mays has learned to live on his allowance, and when he is not over at the Shemanos', he lounges happily in his $100,000 cocoa-and-white split-level pad in the fashionable Forest Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, watches TV on one of his three sets, and keeps open house for the neighborhood kids...
Landing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport the next afternoon, Johnson found Dick Daley waiting for him, along with Illinois' Governor Otto Kerner, Democratic National Committeeman Jake Arvey, dozens of Democratic precinct workers - and little Cathy Baker. Daley and his boys were not about to let some kid beat them to the President. When Johnson stepped down from the plane, Daley's Democrats rumbled past Cathy, thundered eagerly up to offer Johnson their plump palms. The President shook hands with most of them, finally scooped up Cathy, collected a kiss for preventing the railroad strike...
While her ear for dialogue is keen, her sense of direction falters. The various themes fail to fit together into a coherent fugue. Nonetheless, her characters are engaged in a sometimes sensitive search for meaning in their drab lives. Fred Willkie does a particularly fine job as Jake, a young garbage collector. Joel DeMott's performance as the waitress is fulled with nuance and her accent doesn't detract from her acting. Diane Kagan, who plays Gloria, one of the cooks, is less successful with the New York vulgar tongue, but Jaye Schulman as Lily, the other cook, is often...