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Veeck, who genially described himself as a hustler and publicity hound, owned major league teams four times: the Browns, the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox (twice). His usual approach was to buy a rundown franchise, spruce up the ball park, then operate the team on the cheap while raising cash through promotions. Veeck had firm theories on how to promote. If you want to give away 50,000 beers, he once said, give them all to one fan--it will generate far more interest and conversation...
...least older, playing themselves in a real-life soap opera. They were selected in 1963 for a TV documentary called 7 Up and have sat for state-of-their-lives portraits in 1970, 1977 and 1984, all supervised by Michael Apted (director of Coal Miner's Daughter and Gorky Park). The latest installment, 28 Up, includes generous excerpts from the three previous reports. Flipping through the dozen lives as through a family album or social worker's casebook, we find a fascinating and poignant group picture of a nation with the juice squeezed...
...touching was your article "A Christmas Story," by Roger Rosenblatt [NATION, Dec.30]. Every city in this country has a Sunset Park with its Mallorys, Marias, Geraldines and Mary Pauls. Reading about their lives made me take stock of myself and forced me to swallow a large dose of "shocking reality." George Harris Sr. Houston...
...country where anti-Americanism is spreading. President François Mitterrand openly attacks the U.S., and Premier Laurent Fabius blames America for every French ill. Disney Chairman Michael Eisner has made a mistake in choosing the Marne-la-Vallée for the company's first European Disney theme park. Bad weather in that region will keep this amusement park closed at least four months a year. My prediction: Eisner will lose "his" $1.8 billion and will be forced to pack Mickey's bags and run to Spain begging forgiveness. Anthony Mantykowsky Carrouges, France...
...Meech, a finger-like lake set in the evergreen-forested hills of Quebec's Gatineau Park, has long been a mecca for canoeists, campers, fishermen and skiers. But it was not the area's scenic beauty that last week drew Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and key members of his Progressive Conservative Cabinet to the government-owned retreat on the lake's snow-covered shore. Faced with Parliament's return from Christmas recess this week and with a host of problems awaiting action, Mulroney and his advisers had driven the half-hour north from Ottawa for an agonizing reappraisal...