Word: plimpton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walls of George Plimpton's apartment and office, amid the photographs, posters, paintings, prints, drawings, letters, manuscript pages, animal heads, odd hats and assorted other mementos that take the place of wallpaper, are several cartoons. In one, a patient about to go under the knife looks up at the masked surgeon and plaintively asks: "Wait a minute! How do I know you're not George Plimpton?" In another, set in some imaginary banana republic whose government is about to be overthrown, one mustachioed officer demands of his coconspirators: "Before we proceed with the coup, gentlemen . . . which...
...some doors remained closed. Following a meeting on the steps of the Capitol the lawyers split up into 150 teams to buttonhole other Senators and Congressmen. Bar Association President Francis Plimpton, a former deputy delegate to the United Nations, was turned away when he tried to see Senator Ernest Rollings. New York State Senator Manfred Ohrenstein found Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott too preoccupied with legislative problems to heed the attorneys' brief that the President had gone beyond the law in sending troops into Cambodia. "I'm not sure the message got through," Ohrenstein said. Nor was Attorney...
...because their hands get sore," said John Pugh, general manager of the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus. "But he's been going up three and four times a day. He's got a lot of guts." The daring young man was do-it-yourself George Plimpton, who has tried just about everything else. This caper was for a TV special, Plimpton at the Circus. Besides the trapeze, the Paper Lion took on the "taming" of a pair of real lions named Nero and John-John...
...Visiting Committee included a number of other prominent alumni, who met in subcommittees all day with students and faculty. Among them were Francis T. P. Plimpton, president of the New York Bar Association; Judge Henry Friendly, of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals; Joseph A. Califano Jr., a former aide to President Johnson; and Thomas G. Corcoran, a prominent Washington lawyer and New Deal official...
...close and deke if you like. It's up to you. Then, I'll use the experience to write a story on what it's like to be in the goal with an All-American shooting at you. I think the fans would go for it. You know, like Plimpton...