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...deepest Mississippi, 320 candidates have already filed for next August's primary, to select a 189-man legislature. Last week, in Eupora (pop. 1,377), Citizen Phil Bell, hill farmer, backwoods raconteur, onetime moonshiner, felt the urge to serve...
These descriptions became part of the carefully nurtured legend of Alexander Woollcott. The legend was no more varied than the man. Despite his activities as dramacritic, radio raconteur, cinemactor, women's club lecturer, magazine contributor, author (While Rome Burns, etc.), playwright, Broadway actor, he achieved his greatest success in the tireless, diverse role of Alexander Woollcott-a complex of childish petulance, fierce, blind loyalties, sentimental sophistication, and a cannibalistic curiosity about people and things...
Died. John Thomas ("Pappy Jack") Doyle, 66, the most reliable odds-maker in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Jacksonville. For 30 years owner of "Doyle's Billiard Rooms," hangout popular with Broadway sports, he was an elegantly dressed raconteur with a prodigious memory, who got to know almost everybody from Diamond Jim Brady up & down, became the unofficial odds-maker of the betting world, a sort of one-man Lloyd's. Gamblers from London to Buenos Aires wired, phoned and cabled him before they aid their bets. "Over a period of 40 years," le once explained...
Last week, while Old Zup made plans to retire to his farm-to pursue his twin hobbies of raising cattle and painting landscapes-football's Saturday-night round-table exhumed many a Zuppke yarn. Bob Zuppke never lost his "Dutch brogue," is nearly as famed a raconteur as coach. His pet butt used to be Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, of whom he once said: "Everybody vants to know vat Rock puts in his football besides vind...
This is a rich volume, one which is ideal for filling in an odd ten minutes. Like table talk with a learned and skillful raconteur, the book is both educational and entertaining...