Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women and young people, Fay recalls, Kennedy before his marriage had no great affection for very young children. He never became a political baby-kisser. During the 1960 campaign, after a mutually cool encounter with Sally Fay, 4, his goddaughter, Kennedy deadpanned: "I don't think the kid quite caught that strong quality of love of children that is so much a part of the candidate's makeup and has made him so dear to the hearts of mothers." Caroline and John Jr. introduced him to paternal affection, of course; and Fay, like other Kennedy chroniclers, reports that...
Babe Ruth survived as a hero largely because his young admirers never realized that his private life was pretty disheveled. Today's sports hero is more widely known, but loses glamour when seen combing greasy kid stuff out of his hair. Americans like their heroes earthy, whether it is Ted Williams or Casey Stengel-but he must not be too loutish. Jackie Robinson is elected because he displayed grace under the pressure of breaking the color bar in baseball. Still, the arena is crowded; so many good athletes are on view that heroes, as distinct from mere record breakers...
...Financial Suicide." Untried rookies collected up to $600,000 in bonuses-infuriating established stars, who began playing out their options so they could jump to the other league for more money. "What can you do," asked A.F.L. Commissioner Al Davis, "when a kid who doesn't know beans about pro football but makes twice as much money as you do tells you to go to hell?" Club owners began to panic. "We were getting near financial suicide," says N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle. And fans grew disgusted. "The whole sport," says Rozelle, "was beginning to look pretty shabby...
...formula for a Doris Day sex comedy. As usual, the man cast opposite her has to perform somewhat like the catcher in a flashy female trapeze act, and Rod Taylor doughtily goes through the motions of Doris-appreciation without losing his grip. As a combination scientific whiz kid and loverboy, Rod invents an anti-gravity device, heads a U.S. space center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit is decorated in passionate red, and the whole house is the sort of marshmallow...
...Moviegoer, it seems, has a brilliant kid brother. Walker Percy's first novel, which won the National Book Award in 1962, tells the story of a likable young New Orleans stockbroker who escapes the meaninglessness of modern life by going to the movies. The Last Gentleman, his second novel, tells the story of a likable young Mississippian who escapes the meaninglessness of modern life by falling into fits of amnesia and daydreams. Like the earlier book, Gentleman recounts an anti-hero's battle against involvement. But it is sturdier in substance, more supple in style than The Moviegoer...