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Their plan was dangerous they were going to kidnap the Daily News man on his way to the printer and substitute the take front page for the real article...
...idea held most fiercely by Martin's father, a printer, is that his huge son should get an education. Summer school. Not a chance, says Martin. No. Enn-oh. His father berates him as he hulks placidly over his body-building scrapbook. No notice. His father pinches his vast upper arm. Nothing. Finally, driven round the bend by love and exasperation, Martin's father thwacks him with a rolled-up newspaper...
...flinch, falls off his chair and bangs his face against the metal leg of the kitchen table. He breaks off two teeth. The last sentences of Goldberg's story are these: "Slowly, leaking out of every muscle in his body, the tears gathered. Rushing forward, the little printer took his trembling son in his arms and, caressing him like an infant, cried triumphantly for all the world to hear, 'You're a good boy, Martin. You're a good...
...summer of 1972 sometimes bore a gloss of nostalgia. Rock stations piping vacationers to the beach played interminable "golden oldies," the rhythms of the '50s rising over the sunny traffic jams. The mood took others farther back. "Everywhere I go," said Sacramento Printer Gilbert Newman...
...Wilson's heroes is Jules Michelet, a poor printer's son who discovered Vice's ideas in 1824 and used them to create a new kind of history, written as if from the viewpoint of the past, dedicated to human progress and infected with the notion that the common people are more important than their leaders. "To know how to be poor," Michelet once said, "is to know everything...