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...peppery performances stand out. Matt Landers delivers a rousing soliloquy about how he quit a bank job because it was unreal and stopped being a cop when he began to hate people. As a fireman, he salvaged dignity and purpose in saving lives. Playing a call girl, Patti Lu-Pone displays a languid, undeluded cynicism that stingingly implies that the U.S. may be a nation of hustlers...
...Kennedy blew up at the New York Herald Tribune, and canceled all 22 White House subscriptions to the newspaper They used to keep the bad clips from Ike to avoid eruptions of his barracks temper. L.B.J. thought the press was a giant conspiracy to portray him as "your corn-pone President." During Watergate, Ron Ziegler's press briefings often had a portion devoted to the sins of the Washington Post...
...give the reader the impression that he has seen this book many times before. Jed Tewksbury is a poor white boy from Dugton, Ala. His daddy is the dashing county drunk who falls down and kills himself " while urinating on his mule. Jed's mother is the pone of the earth. She supports her fatherless boy by working in a cannery. She makes sure he has clean shirts and does his homework. Her dream is to get Jed up and out of Dugton as soon as possible...
Your issue gave us a lot of corn pone to swallow...
...later, his 30 victories along with 19 by his brother Paul ("Daffy"), led the Gashouse Gang to the pennant; the brothers won two games apiece as the Cards took the World Series. Compulsively impish, Dean approached the Boston Braves' bench before one game and announced with characteristic corn-pone bravado: "I ain't pitchin' no curves today, boys." True to his word, he then "fogged over" nothing but fastballs, pitching a three-hit shutout. Dean's brilliant career was prematurely curtailed by injuries, and he retired in 1941 with a record of 150 wins against...