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Harvard, of course, aspires to make us all like Harry Bailey and Sam Wainwright--or even, God help us, like Mr. Potter, the wealthy, grasping banker of Bedford Falls. And no one here, no gov jock or pre-med or final club frequenter wants to be George Bailey. No one wants to suffer and sweat and barely scrape by, to give up youthful potential in favor of adult burdens, to sacrifice dreams on the altar of necessity. No one wants to be at the end of their rope on Christmas Eve, staring down into dark water and needing a little...
...defects," frets a Gore aide. Stenholm is fielding calls from Gore surrogates, and Bush allies have leaked his name as a possible Agriculture Secretary under Bush, an attractive prospect for a third-generation cotton farmer and ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee. "I addressed him as Mr. Secretary a couple of days ago," says Jere Lawrence, who helped run Stenholm's last campaign. If Stenholm plays his cards right, the next one to call him that might be Bush...
...could get cute and explicate the movie as an anticorporate parable. Without George and his community-conscious building and loan, the cartoonishly bad Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) would have synergized Bedford Falls into a grim and soulless company town. Do people respond to the movie as a protest against takeovers? I doubt...
...implying a recovery in about five years. And I believe the market has muscle memory; having been there once, it's easier to get back. My prediction? Three years. Odds are I'm wrong. What's important, though, is that I'm mentally set for a grind. Go ahead, Mr. Market, surprise me, pleeeeze...
Past Gems: 'We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds' 'He Made Me Free' 'The Selfishness in Man' 'The Honky Tonk Downstairs' 'Once a Day' 'When Your House Is Not a Home' 'Three's a Crowd' 'Mr. Fool' And it may well have been the Osborne Brothers who brought this song to the attention of George Jones and Melba Montgomery. The Osbornes, more on the country side of bluegrass, used to tour with Jones and Montgomery in the early '60s. Anyway, "Once More" ended up on 1964's "Bluegrass Hootenanny," the second of three albums Melba and George made together...