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...College of the Pacific, 1953 co-holder (with Georgia's John Carson, Stanford's Sam Morley) of intercollegiate pass-catching honors, first draft choice of the professional-football New York Giants; of cancer (which he learned he had in March, thought he could lick in time to play football this fall); in Paso Robles, Calif...
Idaho's Republican Herman Welker, one of Joe's most loyal pals, agreed with Liberals Monroney and Fulbright that a censure vote should be taken quickly, but Welker's vote would be for Joe. Said Welker: "... I am going to stand up and hit a lick for America." Welker could see no profit in restraining Joe's methods, "under a nicey-nicey code of ethics." Welker was especially incensed at Flanders' charge that McCarthy had contempt for his fellow men. Roared Welker: "No one can tell me that Irishman would not give the shirt...
...drooling, I'd bite 'em. I did it too much. Groucho Marx can get away with it but me. I couldn't. I'm not that good." But if he has to choose, Cullen would rather be snide than syrupy. He has had to lick another tendency-overenthusiasm: "You know. Bert Parks and John Reed King started this routine of building up a climax and shouting at the correct answer, screaming 'That's right! That's right!' I got over that, finally...
...west Texas where we come from," said one calloused driller, "there's no water around. We operate dry as horned toads. They bring us down to Louisiana, and there's the ocean! We'll lick the s.o.b." No one who knows the oilmen doubts that they will...
...world's standards he is a rich dead beat who has never done a lick of work in his 36 years. Born in America and educated in England, Stephen goes to Berlin in the '20s as "a runaway puritan." There he samples "every kind of pleasure, vice, shame and mental anguish," and returns to England a jaded 22, convinced that the only valid emotion is boredom, "or ennui as I preferred to call it." Into the midst of ennui steps an older woman named Elizabeth Rydal, a sensitive novelist of the Virginia Woolf persuasion, with grey eyes...