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Pinocchio's nose grew longer with each fib. Howard's merely twitches in private glee at each deception. Up to this point, Douglass Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, The Good Life) has created an amusing if implausible scoundrel and a book that makes suitable summer reading on those winter flights to Miami or points south. The problem with Howard's Bag is how to teach an old gimmick new tricks. With preposterous ease, Howard's truth-loving new secretary catches on to his secret and converts him to her own uncomfortable creed...
...example, the 50 stars have come to signify so many stations of racism. To the poor, to disaffected minorities, to antiwar demonstrators, the pledge is the reverse of truth (one nation divisible, with liberty and justice for some). To them, the flag sometimes seems a distress signal, a pennant of aggression and ill-used power. The more militant have responded to it with the conditioned reflex of rage, flying the Stars and Stripes upside down from the Statue of Liberty or setting it aflame. In reaction to this lack of respect, the "100% Americans" and just plain Middle Americans have...
...purchased the team for $13.2 million in 1964, but the club failed to win a pennant for the network. Burke and his eleven partners-only Cleveland Shipbuilder George M. Steinbrenner attended the press conference announcing the purchase-are confident that their team's fortunes can only improve. They have a $24 million commitment from New York City to renovate Yankee Stadium, and they are counting on recent major trades to bring a pennant back to the Bombers and the fans back to The Bronx...
...ANGELES--It looked as if they were going to a giant pep rally. Pennant buttons, horns, and cowbells were everywhere to be seen and heard in the Los Angeles International Airport. Loyal fans of the Miami Dolphins and the Washington Redskins arrived continually for the two days prior to the game, beginning the longest weekend in football...
...flashed. "The Dolphins ARE super." One tired Miami fan staggered down the exit ramp with his shirt open and a half-finished drink in his hand. He muttered. "We can't lose, we can't lose." The Redskin lover next to him looked at his rolled up Super Bowl pennant and said nothing...