Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George spends more time with me than any other press secretary I've had," says Johnson. "He is tough but reserved." Just as Whiz Kid Bill Moyers suited Johnson during early, more flamboyant days in the White House, Christian, 40, is now the compleat Johnson man. The President these days is cautious, ungarrulous. So is Christian...
...soft-spoken loner-a once-wealthy rancher whose gold-filled land has been stolen in a swindle. Back he comes, seeking revenge with four men foolhardy enough to join him in a scheme to restore his riches: a leathery gunfighter (Kirk Douglas); an outlaw Indian (Howard Keel); an alcoholic kid (Robert Walker) whose favorite mixture is whisky and nitroglycerin; and a wagon-driving double agent (Keenan Wynn) who moonlights for Wayne and sunlights for the other side...
Only a few decades ago, when most sports were the province of the rich, baseball-the one game any kid could play on a sandlot-was the National Pastime. Today, in an affluent democracy, when just about everyone can afford the pastime of his choice, no single game, but sport itself has become the nation's favorite. It also has become an honorable profession, open to every class and every race. It has produced a new type of professional athlete-admired, socially acceptable and remarkably well educated. Quarterback Charley Johnson of pro football's St. Louis Cardinals...
...mean I recognized the goddam kid right away. He's my Jewish-Indian literary cousin Joe Hosea, the one who got thrown out of prep school in Bombay because the phonies thought he was trying to burn down the school. A very big deal. I mean all he did was drop a match in a pile of wood shavings in the carpentry shed. Then my literary aunt and uncle packed him off to military school. Way off in the Himalayas, for Chrissake...
...Judah less than a thousand dollars. That's not very encouraging for someone who is really a very funny writer. And I mean that sincerely, even if it is true that I wrote a story like this myself way back in '51 when 1 was just a kid...