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This fall the fur is flying as usual, but now the animals are coming from every corner of Noah's ark in colors, forms and designs that would make the old sable set roll over and play possum...
...that modesty was too much for Jim ("Mudcat") Grant, the American League's No. 1 pitcher (season's record: 21-7). "I'm cool, sexy and suave," Grant announced, and he confided to newsmen that his broad shoulders were the result of eating possum as a kid. Star of the Twins' 8-2 first-game victory, Mudcat was knocked out of the box in the fourth game at Los Angeles. Two days later, with the Twins trailing 3-2 in the Series, he trudged to the mound again. Fortified by hot and cold showers...
...image." With four singles and one LP high on the bestseller charts, they are the reigning sweethearts of folk rock. Their costumes, faithfully imitated by their followers, are pop art with pockets: Chér in wildly striped bell-bottom slacks, Sonny in shaggy bobcat and possum fur vests. In the face of adult censure, they join hands and sing I Got You, Babe: "They say your hair's too long. But I don't care. With you I can't do wrong." When the manager of a Los Angeles restaurant recently asked them to leave because...
...which in turn is $935 below the national median for whites. Many Southern Negroes will remain too poor to go to restaurants and theaters now open to them, too uneducated to fill any new jobs that might possibly now be available; they will continue to live in Possum Hollows, ill fed and ill clothed. They face bitterness and disillusion, which are the natural aftermath of revolutions. A little progress only sharpens the hunger for more progress, as Charles Silberman points out in Crisis in Black and White: the closer "disadvantaged groups" are to their goals, "the harder...
...Smoot "if we hurt his feelings," but the commentator was not moved. He slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit against Mrs. Power and three other league members, charging that he had suffered financial loss. He offered no specifics whatever, and he spent the next ten months playing possum with the court. Weary of endless pretrial conferences, Federal Judge Noel P. Fox in Grand Rapids finally ordered Smoot to post a $15,000 bond (he never has) to cover the league's legal fees if it could prove that Smoot's suit was merely for "vexatious purposes." With...