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...sending the cream of the race into space to begin a new, brings the story back to Burgess' theme--the question of just what is worthwhile about humanity and the culture we have created. According to the plan, Valentine and his kind might be lost--together with Roundy Kupkakes, Kingfisher, Kingfish in Eggbatter, Shakespeare, Milton, and all of the "dirty delightful world" the hero Brodie considers worthwhile. Instead the spaceship would be "full of men and women with thin exact minds who would not know who Sir John Falstaff was." Among them would be Vanessa Brodie, a genius-goddess held...
...straight and solid Amos to the late Charles Correll's gullible Andy in the Negro-dialect comedy radio show that was a national craze for most of its 31 -year run; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Gosden also did the voices of the bamboozling George "Kingfish" Stevens and the shuffling Lightnin' until the show succumbed to poor ratings...
...Abscam (short for Arab scam) investigation led a federal grand jury in Brooklyn to indict Democratic Congressmen Frank Thompson of New Jersey and John Murphy of New York on charges of bribery and conspiracy. Brilab (for bribery labor) resulted in a New Orleans grand jury naming Mafia Kingfish Carlos ("Little Man") Marcello on counts of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. So far, Abscam has led to indictments of five Congressmen, all accused of accepting bribes from bogus Arab businessmen. The first three: Democrats Michael Myers and Raymond Lederer of Pennsylvania, and John Jenrette of South Carolina...
Huey Long made the governorship of Louisiana the most powerful state executive office in the U.S., which explains why half a dozen major candidates have spent a record $20 million this year trying to occupy the grandiose state capitol that the Kingfish built in Baton Rouge 48 years ago. What is surprising is that for the first time since Reconstruction, a Republican, Congressman David Treen, 51, is favored to win the runoff on Dec. 8. That is not what the archpopulist Huey Long had in mind...
...search is relentless. He has followed the trail to the chamber of Senator Russell Long, where he exchanged a few bad jokes with the Kingfish's son and then listened to advice about cutting spending. "I'm running this inflation fight with a roll of dimes for the phone and a pencil and pad," Strauss said about his own example of restraint. He has looked across at General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy and preached a little about corporate citizenship. Murphy, it turned out, got there before Strauss did. "We will meet the President's program on price...