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...remember, sun sets of a different hue. L.W. ("Will") Willette, a retired, seven-times wounded Marine Corps sergeant major who looks like Ollie Hardy and sounds like John Wayne, is typical. Will takes his 27 ft., rebuilt Travco and 21 medals from four wars from town to town, ole buddy to ole buddy, all year round, stopping only in the town he calls Lost Wages, Nev., to collect his ample pension checks. A reluctant hero, he has found the good life...
...shirt-sleeved President and his pantsuited wife Rosalynn helicoptered in from Camp David to join the ranks of 12,000 fans and hear Willie match vocal cords with Emmylou Harris, 31. When Willie finished Georgia on My Mind, Carter emerged from the sidelines, and the two good ole boys who made good wrapped each other...
...COMIC relief comes never too soon in the person of Rough (that's right), a feisty and eccentric ole London detective, who sweeps in with a bottle of Scotch whiskey and the story of an ancient crime commited right in Mrs. Manningham's parlor. John Guerrasio brings the play to life with his odd characterization. Mrs. Manningham settles down, Mr. Manningham's motives are revealed, and Rough sprouts about the stage with his Holmesian moustache and pipe, becoming both the saving touch of credibility to the play, but also the final measure of mystery that escalates this belated tale...
...Hamilton Jordan, calls him "Crafty," a wordplay on his name, not his style. Timothy Earl Kraft, 37, has a reputation for directness and reliability as well as a dis arming aw-shucks mien and slow, quiet drawl. Says a White House staffer: "He's more of a good ole boy than the Georgians...
...looked as if ole George was leaving politics after 16 years as the self-styled message-bearer of disaffected Americans. His longtime sparring partners in the press wrote smug political obituaries. Said the New York Times: "His were the resentful people, who wave flags and are frightened by those who look 'different.' " The Washington Post recalled: "His success obliged those other politicians to address both the Wallace constituency and the Wallace issues, without adopting the discredited Wallace racial line...