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Quincy's Jack Coggins had to run in a 60-yd. dash heat all by himself. After he finished, the scoreboard flashed, "Coggins, by a nose...
Last week, for instance, he was particularly persuasive as a celebrity auctioneer at a charity sale at Christie's galleries in Manhattan: "Give me a 50, a 50, a 50, let's see a 60, a 65. Don't scratch your nose because I'm very observant." His spiel swiftly sold five lots of porcelain objets d'art, raising $1,160 for the World Wildlife Fund. Cronkite said he learned his patter from the Lucky Strike tobacco auctioneers, who were last on radio when he was still a cub wire-service reporter. No matter. Impressed...
Rubbing elbows with the very rich also seems essential. They are different, especially in this book. They are called things like Topsy and Bootsie and Kiki. Folks around the office just have faces, but Vanessa "wore her long nose as if it were the mark of royal birth." Time must be spent learning to understand their odd way of bantering: "Daisy Valensky, you have the makings of a first-class bitch somewhere inside that glorious exterior." The untrained ear probably misses all kinds of nuances there. What to make of Daisy's typical dialogue: "Pants? What about your good...
Anderson moves by the same sensible and unchanging ideals by which the farmers in his district have lived for decades. Don't spend more than you have, don't have the government poking its nose in places where it shouldn't be, let the forces of supply and demand determine most of what goes on in our lives, and everything will settle just fine. The problem is the ideas that work on the farm do not necessarily make for the best government...
Symptoms of the flu usually include fever, a cough, sore throat, runny nose, and headache...