Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marathon jury duty had its compensations. "It gave me a minor education in finance and law," says Stenographer Pat Wickwire. ''Now I can sit and find fault with Perry Mason." Most pleasing of all was the tribute from Federal District Judge William B. Herlands. As he dismissed the jury, he told them: "The time has come for the Government to award a Distinguished Service Cross to those who perform outstanding acts of civic responsibility and patriotism, and you should be the first recipients...
Pools & Pinochle. Rather than wearing on one another, the jurors became good friends. During the long hours they had to spend in the jury room outside while legal points were being argued in court, they chatted about everything except the case, knitted, read, and kept up a marathon pinochle game. On a first-name basis within two days, they held a World Series pool, decorated the jury room for a Christmas grab-bag party. The jurors never had a serious argument, and have already made plans for an annual reunion. When it was all over, Judge Herlands offered the seven...
...confronted with himself at 60, 40, 20, and even as a baby. The four grown Sams share the stage together, and with all the amusing ironies of hindsight and foreknowledge relive key episodes in their communal life. Sam at 20 (John Horton) is an ardent lyric poet and marathon runner, at 40 (Donald Davis) a disgruntled fictional crafts man of obscure worst-sellers, at 60 (Dennis King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still trying to learn the lesson of his life as the four Sams discuss marriage, mistresses, goals and the gulf between father...
...wide-open receiver, hit himself on the helmet with the football. At the start of a sudden-death overtime, Texan Captain Abner Haynes unthinkingly elected to kick off, and into the wind at that. But the Dallas defense held, and Tommy Brooker eventually ended the 77-min. marathon with a 25-yd. field goal...
Nelson toured Wisconsin slowly and deliberately, attacking Wiley for opposing Administration measures such as medicare and the drug bill. After the marathon session of Congress, Wiley finally got home to campaign, took Nelson's bait, and behaved as irascibly as his worst enemy could possibly have hoped. First, he called Nelson a "nitwit." Then, asked by a reporter about his stand on medicare, Wiley roared: "You keep your damn nose out of my business and I'll keep mine out of yours." At a press conference, Wiley answered a reporter's innocuous question by hollering: "Shut...