Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Feb. 9 article on my book, The Privilege Was Mine: I should be very happy indeed with your review, had you not reproached me for Russian nationalism. My greatest wish is to see Hungary, Poland, etc., regain their independence, but neither in Moscow during the Budapest uprisal, nor afterward was I optimistic enough to believe that the Soviets would surrender (without a new World War) a system on which they think reposes their very existence. Who could expect the masters of the Kremlin to act differently in this crisis...
...Veeck, "being in baseball is like taking dope," and now that he is back, he has marijuana-sized dreams for the White Sox. Chicago is a potential gold mine, says Veeck: "Industry is diversified so that if one sector of the economy is hurting, it doesn't kill you like it would in Detroit or Pittsburgh." He intends to pull all the stops. His first object, he says, is "putting on the field the best ball club." Then come the gimmicks: fireworks shows at $1,000 a clip, a baby-sitting service for mothers, free nylons for the ladies...
...sleekly barbered businessman at ringside nodded his approval ("Frankie's voice has cracked a little, but what the hell . . . so's mine"). He seemed unbothered by what the night with Sinatra was costing him. The sunburned blonde who shared his table dropped a bone to applaud, her diamonds glittering; she seemed bemused by what a night of Sinatra might be worth. Whatever the song -Willow Weep for Me, I've Got You Under My Skin, The Lady Is a Tramp-Frankie's unmatched showmanship, his sad, slow baritone, his baggy, bedroom eyes got the message across...
...Mine Enemy Grows Older, King...
...great life. I don't use an alarm clock any more, work when I feel like it. In the past year I had fourteen weeks of night club work and fifteen or twenty concerts. As for the rest of the time, the record business is still mine and I've got to arrange all these engagements myself--I don't have an agent. My program is worked out now so that I can do a whole show myself--about twenty-six songs...