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...hung on his lapel a button inscribed "S.O.D." Its meaning: "Sons of Dunghill," commemorating the January occasion when "Engine" Charlie, fresh from another White House palaver over his remarks about the National Guard (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), declined to comment on the meeting, blurting: "This isn't my dunghill!" Quip-per Wilson finally explained last week exactly what he had meant, thus increased his renown for honesty, if not discretion. Said Charlie Wilson: "I meant that this particular place is not the place where I can talk best. I was not referring to the White House as such. There...
...journalism graduate," according to an old newspaperman's quip, "is only one degree removed from a good reporter." Today, instead of turning away the diploma bearer, U.S. newspapers are bidding eagerly for journalism school graduates-and finding that there are not nearly enough to go around. From Tulane University's 30-student department to Northwestern's famed Medill School of Journalism (enrollment: 482), journalism deans report that they receive up to ten job offers for every graduate. Said a Journalism Quarterly survey of 76 schools last week: "For the second year in a row, not a single...
...sneak attack, made "the astonishing discovery that he was a born infantry fighter," and, together with a buddy, exultantly checked the enemy. t| On Dale outpost, a badly wounded lieutenant led an uphill counterattack and nightlong defense, next morning could still jolly his men with a grin and a quip: "I already have one Purple Heart. Now they'll have to give me a dozen." t| Two infantrymen, both named Smith, were cut off from their outfit, spent the night with a wounded comrade playing possum on a shell-swept hillside while Chinese attackers swarmed over and past them...
Making the rounds of eight regional party pep gatherings from Santa Fe to Hartford, the Stevenson smile, quip and zip were at their captivating best (said Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan: the meetings were "little short of sensational"). At Manhattan's Ambassador Hotel, where 250 of the best-heeled Democrats turned out to pledge $350,000 to the fund, the candidate was in fine fettle ("I'm delighted to see a group so distinguished-and so solvent"). In Harrisburg, Pa. he laced his arms around the waists of a couple of "farmerette" Stevenson supporters, joshed away as photographers popped...
...play very good," fans would quip, "but he has a lousy tone." In today's overcrowded jungle, one young musician is beginning to emerge because he is lousy with versatility...