Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make one of two commitments," Dietz says, "to an organization or to yourself." What made him choose himself? Possibly Harvard. He may have been a kid from the Roxbury ghetto, but he thrived. "I discovered Protestantism," he explains...
...practiced. By his varsity year, he was Coach Harlow's starting center, playing a full 60 minutes against Michigan. Dietz still remembers what a Michigan All-American said the second time Dietz tackled him: "Hey, kid, you're playing a pretty good game." Dietz spent a happy night in Stillman Infirmary...
...cage in practice ("Bases loaded, two outs," he chirps, waiting for the pitch. "Base hit! Base hit!" he screams, whenever he connects), in the solicitous way he treats the hordes of youngsters who hound him for his autograph ("I remember how I felt about ballplayers when I was a kid"). Juan's father died when he was three ("Too much rum," explains Widow Marichal), and his mother took a dim view of the lad's fanaticism. She railed against his playing ball because it interfered with school and farm chores, tried to stop him from attending grownups...
...singing on a radio station in Jackson, Tenn. After three years of internship with Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys ("I sold song books and swept out the auditoriums"), he got married and struck out on his own. At first the going was tough: "I used to kid my wife that she married me for my money. Actually, she made more than I did, working in a 5 and 100 store." But then I Eddy began recording for RCA Victor in 1945 and was soon turning out hit records like flapjacks...
...knowledge has ever figured out the plot of The Big Sleep, so by that comparison--an obvious one in many ways--Harper's complexities are kid's stuff. But while nothing is left unclear, the first 90 minutes throw out so many loose threads that the remaining 30 can only provide a solution as complex and confusing as the mystery. Partly this is by intention; Harper ends on an effective gimmick which justifies and explains its earlier intricacies...