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...Neill had published a series of erudite feuilletons on such figures as Hawthorne, Henry Adams and William Randolph Hearst; or Howard Baker had come out with a sheaf of witty commentaries on the likes of Whitman, Santayana and Bernard Baruch. Michael Foot is, after all, not a professional man of letters. He is a politician, the leader of Britain's Labor Party, and, as such, his country's shadow Prime Minister...
...power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power." He draws a charming portrait of his father, who passed on his bibliophilia, and a colorfully contradictory one of his father-figure, Lord Beaverbrook. Foot reminisces warmly about his exasperating fellow journalist Randolph Churchill, but repeats the remark that he "should not be allowed out in private." He sketches a learned dissertation on the political significance of Disraeli's novels and states the case for Hazlitt as England's Shakespeare of prose...
...Willie Randolph home run, the New York Yankees captured their 33rd American League pennant yesterday, capping a three game sweep of the Oakland A's with a 4-0 win in the Oakland Coliseum...
Oakland pitcher Matt Keough limited the Yanks to four hits through five innings before New York second baseman Willie Randolph lofted a ball into the left field stands to put the Yankees ahead for good...
Back at Fay's Cafe, Randolph's words draw hoots of derision. "Shoot!" shouts a bearded miner, brushing back his U.M.W. cap. "We'll run scabs out like we did at Herrin years back. This here ain't no Wyoming." This here's union country. John L. Lewis country. -By Lee Griggs