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...impecunious plight has softened the hearts and moistened the eyes of even the most leathery marine in this office. In a spontaneous charitable eruption, we have amassed a small contribution, consisting of Military Payment Certificates (the medium of exchange here in Viet Nam), and will gladly confer this meager token of our sympathy on the struggling young actor on his next U.S.O. appearance here. Mr. Hamilton should be warned that he may not be welcomed exclusively by souls like us, imbued with the spirit of human kindness. In the event of a hegira from his high-ceilinged mansion to this...
This seems like meager stuff to spin out to book length, and indeed readers who like excitement, suspense, significance, and action will be disappointed. Author Williams' gifts lie in other directions. Her words flow with the great simplicity of someone unaware of an audience, or indifferent to its presence. Her mind remembers those shaded places where life beats at a cooler pulse, and she summons with utter fidelity the simple people who live in the shade. Powder Man is a small triumph, and a kind of spell...
...years ago as "the nice guy who didn't get the girl." Last week he walked off with some thing better: an astonishingly large victory in California's Republican gubernatorial primary. The Democrats, by contrast, gave Governor Pat Brown his third-term nomination by a sufficiently meager margin to establish Reagan as an attractive even-money bet in November's general election...
There are big questions about the Sunday World Journal and Tribune too, but the afternoon World Journal is another matter. Even with all the handicaps brought on by the strike, even though the summer, which brings meager advertising to the most successful papers, is fast approaching, the World Journal's future seems bright. With its only competition the tabloid Post, there is obvious room for a second paper. And both Scripps-Howard and Hearst, who have merged their interests in the World Journal, have good reason for hanging on to a base in New York, which is the nation...
Penn, EIBL cellar-dweller last year, wasn't awed by Harvard's Florida conquests. The Quakers threw sophomore Brian Kochunas, who had a 6.07 earned run average as a freshman, against the Crimson and he held them to a meager three runs...