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...numb with the tragic, senseless death of our President. There are heartfelt gestures everywhere; but there is only one tribute that can give meaning to his death. It is simply this: that the ideals he lived for be embodied in law. No single piece of legislation was closer to him than a strong civil rights bill. If, in the face of his death, we enact laws he urgently desired, then alongside the tragedy, his spirit is proclaimed. If we do nothing, it is not fate, but we who render his death senseless and empty. We did not bring...
Just before a performance, Hope changes his tie, keeps shuffling and changing jokes, and squeezes his chief writer's arm until the man's fingers turn numb. Then onstage he bounces on the balls of his feet. His eyes sparkle when the audience laughs. If he hits dull spots, he never takes it out on his writers afterward. Once when an ad agency executive began complaining after a show, Hope told him: "Look, if you've got any ideas, go home and write them. If they're any good, we'll hire you. Otherwise, keep...
More than anyone to date, Fahey conveys that sense of necessary numb ness that thousands of his fellows have never managed to convey to wives or friends back home: this is what it was like...
Then Koufax's luck went sour. The index finger of his pitching hand turned white and numb; layers of skin began to peel off. Doctors decided he had Raynaud's Phenomenon, a circulatory ailment resulting from a blood clot in his palm. Unable even to grip a baseball properly, Koufax did not win another game all year...
...linage since the end of the strike, the business manager of a New York City daily replied with a single syllable: "Hah!" But it was no laughing matter. One long month-and-a-half after the chilling, 114-day newspaper shutdown, Manhattan's seven general dailies are still numb. By conservative reckoning their combined circulation is down 500,000 from a prestrike total of 5,700,000. Some estimates place the losses as high...