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...else you might want to order. He's the most innovative player." His specialty: one-time-only passes for one-time-only plays. "Did you see that off-the-shoulder job? What's the cliche-necessity is the mother of invention?" Cousy is often called the best passer ever, and he thinks Bird is better...
...above the Wilders' house, on Bear Hill Road, Farmer Gaylen Brown is setting out to collect, from 1,000 buckets, the last of the maple sap. He pauses to bulldoze a passer-by out of the bottomless depths across from his house. The Browns have farmed these 175 acres for almost 70 years. His daughter Theresa, 19, and son Willis, 20, are the fourth generation of Browns on the place. "Mud season's not so bad as it used to be," says Brown. "We used to have to hitch up the horses to the wagon and draw...
Finally and fundamentally, you must be the kind of person capable of passing the buck in the first place. This is an art, after all. For Harry Truman, the buck stopped somewhere. For the true buck passer it never stops, but is constantly being turned over in his fingers, heads and tails, waiting for the moment of accusation when it may be gracefully flipped to a patsy. When a run-of-the-mill culprit says, "I did it because I was overtired," he implies that he is essentially a better person than his particular action indicates. But by adding...
...fast. He had no significant savings. He could not get credit or loans. Because technically he had quit his job, he did not qualify for unemployment benefits. Within four weeks he wound up in Los Angeles "with two dollars in my pocket looking for some place to eat." A passer-by steered him to the Union Rescue Mission. A year later London is still there, receiving meals, a bed in an eight-man dormitory room and an $8 weekly allowance. He plans to stay. He has given up hope of finding a job. He made one last-gasp effort...
...season." Characteristically, he never said a word about the constant booing and has remained as unflappable in triumph as in defeat. Last week, when Anderson was named the N.F.L.'s Most Valuable Player, Bill Walsh said, "I have felt all along that Ken was the greatest forward passer in the N.F.L. in recent years. Our Joe Montana is a worthy runnerup, but Ken is the M.V.P." Replied Anderson: "Awww, that's Bill. Just blowing smoke...