Word: oles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter's kind of evening. The stock-car crowd is there because Ole Country Boy Carter is devoted to racing tracks the way his predecessors were to putting greens or yachting water. And the singer? Another Carter favorite: high-riding, low-living Willie Nelson, 45, country music's reigning "redneck rocker...
...work hard for the system each year without pay. "Just say the pageant is my golf game," explains Charles when asked why he does it. From Atlantic City, too, comes intriguing word about some of the other contestants. Miss Mississippi, Christine learns, was a twirler in her band at "Ole Miss" and a fraternity sweetheart, and is the proud owner of a poodle named Po-Co who is her jogging mate...
...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...