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...There are more ideas in this party right now, more flexibility," said Grandy, answering questions on the future of the Grand Old Party. Grandy used to play the part of the purser Gopher on the TV show "Love Boat...
Didn't Reagan and Clint Eastwood play more demanding roles? The ratings that Fred Grandy used to get as Gopher, the shambling, befuddled purser on Love Boat, will undoubtedly be better than those he gets on C-Span. The latest Republican ex-actor in Washington won a narrow congressional race in Iowa, despite criticism that he too lately sailed back into his native port...
Grandy, known to millions worldwide as the bumbling and hapless yeoman purser "Gopher" Smith on TV's "Love Boat", Grandy graduated magna cum laude in English and gave the Ivy Oration. Grandy, who roomed with David Eisenhower while at Phillips Exeter Academy, said during an interview last year with The Crimson that he thought the Gopher image would help him in his quest for election...
...Soviet freighter Pyotr Vasev suddenly loomed out of the darkness. The Admiral Nakhimov's deck officers warned it off by radio, but the big cargo ship bore down steadily and struck the starboard side of the passenger liner. "I was in my cabin when the blow came," said Chief Purser Victor Prosvirnev. "There was a power blackout. The emergency diesel generator came on, but in two or three minutes power failed again as the feeder switchboard was submerged...
...either CIA or FBI." Carlson was beaten severely over a period of 4 1/2 hours. "They started hitting me on the back of the shoulders with an arm of a chair that was torn off." He remained in mortal danger until he managed, with the help of Purser Derickson, to convince the terrorists that he was not "diplomatic" but Army Reserve, with "a wife and a little baby girl." At that point, his tormentor underwent a dramatic change of mood. Declares Carlson: "He walked over to me, looked down and picked me up and put his arms around me, told...