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...also become a pillar of the Tulsa community. He is a director of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and of one of the city's largest banks. He belongs to Rotary. His operations are vast. Besides supporting the 1,400-student university, the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association publishes a monthly magazine called Abundant Life (circ. 1,200,000) and a quarterly inspirational guide called Daily Blessing (circ. 400,000), plans his television shows, and promotes his radio program to 165 stations. All together, the Roberts empire generates more mail than any other Tulsa concern, including Shell...
...actor like Peter Falk can produce out of their sheer unfaltering professionalism. Falk is perfectly cast. He has just the right sag to the shoulders and a face that a mirror would wince at in the morning. Lee Grant is tart, perky and warmly sympathetic. Vincent Gardenia is a pillar of righteous, lard and quivers hysterically when he thinks of all the love that was denied him and lavished upon Mel when they were boys...
Time: 1948. Scene: The quaintly musty Cambridge University rooms where E.M. Forster lived the last 25 years of his life as an honorary fellow. The young visitor was Gore Vidal, who had just piqued the U.S. literary scene with The City and the Pillar, perhaps the frankest homosexual novel in the language to date. Forster allowed as how he too had once written-but suppressed-a homosexual novel that boldly depicted two boys in bed together. "And what did they do?" asked Vidal. "They...talked," replied Forster...
...leaders marched to a gala dinner in their honor at the White House?an unprecedented invitation from a President, and a Republican at that. Nixon paid tribute to his new ally: "When the old virtues and the good virtues are being brought under question, this man stood like a pillar in a storm." Meany returned the compliment after a fashion. "Let me tell you," he said, "Franklin Roosevelt was just as tricky a politician as anyone who bore the name Tricky Dick ever could...
...wouldn't have minded my $10 seat behind the pillar if Ali could've won. And the two Dartmouth guys who sent for tickets the first day the ad appeared and then drove 125 miles only to end up behind the screen at the Boston Garden might've been able to laugh it off if he'd done it. And Howard Cosell. Think of Howard. Ali promised to finish Cosell after downing Frazier, but it would've been worth it for Howard if he could have seen...