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...work, and when they fail, the President's memory fails too. Early in his first presidential campaign, he was asked how he had managed to avoid the draft. "I was just lucky, I guess," he replied (twinkle, twinkle). Only later, of course, did we discover that luck, as Mae West might have said, had nothing to do with it. As a candidate, he remembered almost none of the artful maneuvers and broken commitments that had allowed him to escape military service. "I'd been in public life a long time," he said, to explain his memory lapses...
...Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, Grover and the rest who made Sesame Street so captivating. Joan Ganz Cooney, who created the show, once remarked that the group involved with it had a collective genius but that Henson was the only individual genius. "He was our era's Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, W.C. Fields and Marx Brothers," Cooney said, "and indeed he drew from all of them to create a new art form that influenced popular culture around the world...
...Roswell Road and Sandy Springs Place, just north of Atlanta, has more to offer than crullers and glazes. Show up around midmorning, and you'll find a striking 49-year-old woman dressed to win a role in a Victorian stage production. Faye Yager has a collection of hats Mae West would have killed for, and today's is a black felt, feathered affair...
...government created Fannie Mae as a buyer for fully amortized mortgages. Although nearly all homes are bought on amortized mortgages today, these simple payment plans were very unorthodox during the Depression and needed a government corporation to provide backing for them...
Raines expressed a guarded optimism regarding Fannie Mae's continuing role in helping improve family life in the years ahead. With the economy as strong as it has ever been, the constant low unemployment and minimal inflation have helped black families make significant strides in overcoming the economic obstacles they face today, but further progresscan still be made, Raines said...