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...Roommates" at 1:45, 4:15, 6:45 and 9:15 p.m. "The Hunted" at 2:15 and 6:30 p.m. "Walking Dead" at 4:30 and 9 p.m. "Man of the House" at 12:45, 3, 5:30, 7:45 and 10 p.m. "The Mangler" at 2:45, 5:15, 8 and 10:40 p.m. "Nobody's Fool" at 1:30, 3:45, 6 and 8:45 p.m. "Hideaway" at 1:15, 4, 7 and 9:30 p.m. "Forrest Gump...
Americans who remember Ike at all tend to recall a do-little President or a mangler of sentences at press conferences. Military writers sometimes portray Ike the General as a genial and soothing Alliance board chairman at best, or at worst a glad-handing bumbler. Eisenhower the Supreme Commander was none of those. He was a driving, demanding man of terrific energy: up before dawn, to bed after midnight, chain-smoking four packs of cigarettes, drinking 15 cups of coffee a day. He was a military perfectionist, impatient with his subordinates and a peerless, lucid briefer. He had a volcanic...
...hated to have women in his class ("Damn it all, Mrs. Brown, I wish you weren't here"), liked to announce his quizzes by pulling up his tie like a hangman's noose ("Well, I'm going hang you on Thursday. . . Any questions? ). An incorrigible mangler of names, Uncle Harry once bedeviled a student named Diket with a bewildering succession of near misses: Mr. Siket, Mr Liket, Mr. Ticket, Mr. Rickets, Mr. Fikit, Mr. Spiket, Mr. Icket...
...grown sugar cane on the islands, but it was New England missionaries like Baldwin's grandfather Dwight (he came in 1831) who brought Yankee traders to commercialize it. It was Dwight's son, bushy-bearded, one-armed Henry Baldwin (he lost the other arm in a cane-mangler) who built the Baldwin dynasty. He went partners with Sam Alexander, son of another missionary. At a cost of $80,000 and harrowing effort, Henry built the 17-mile-long Hamakua Ditch to bring irrigation to the cane fields. With son Frank, he once swam a flooded gulch in order...
...Pardon Me, Madame . . ." Jimmy Durante is, for example, no ordinary word mangler. There are manglers galore in show business, but Jimmy has a poet's ear for the mot injuste ("Let me hear that high note, maestro ! . . . What a note ! . . . A promissory note, if I ever heard one!'") And Jimmy is a past master of timing-that comedian's sine qua non. In the grand old days of the comedy team of (Lou) Clayton, (Eddie) Jackson and Durante, which broke up in 1931, Jimmy led them in a repertory of nightclub shenanigans (elaborately punctuated by a disreputable...