Word: roger
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...post, but Ford has said that he will ask Whyte's advice. The two have been friends since U.S. Steel sent Whyte to Washington in 1952 during Ford's second term in Congress: they golf together, their families have vacationed together, and Whyte's younger son Roger has dated Ford's daughter Susan. Whyte says that he and Ford are "pro-free enterprise." Among his opinions: new wage-price controls would hamper steel production; the U.S. should "close the gates" on exports of steel scrap (presumably because they tend to keep supplies down and prices...
...excesses, empathizing with his small-boy penitence when disciplined by the ball club, and appreciating, as perhaps only those who follow baseball can, the way he cocked his bat, stepped into a pitch, swung as if to clear the bases. Today only a handful of Americans can identify Roger Maris, who broke the Babe's season record by hitting 61 home runs back in 1961. But everyone, even those born after his death from cancer in 1948, knows about Babe Ruth. Maris was a highly skilled athlete. In more ways than one, Ruth was a Homeric figure...
...lesson in stomped hopes and lapsed memories must have appealed to Nicholson's sense of irony, and worked as well on his aggressive sense of pride. He enrolled in a beginner's acting course run by Actor Jeff Corey. Other pupils included James Coburn, Sally Kellerman, Producer Roger Corman, Writers Carol Eastman and Robert Towne. Nicholson and Towne (who was later to write the screenplays of The Last Detail and Chinatown) hit it off immediately and shared a small apartment on the hungry fringes of Hollywood. Both of them had crushes on every actress in the class, Towne...
...began to pick up more or less steady, but decidedly unglamorous work in such Roger Corman quickies as The Terror, starring Boris Karloff, and The Raven, in which Jack played Peter Lorre's son. The only real satisfaction Nicholson was to get from any of these films, besides a salary, was the chance to insert a little underhanded humor. He once had the smallest running part in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre-a chauffeur. Nicholson ad-libbed a single line of dialogue to steal a scene. While a hoodlum rubs some foreign substance on the ammunition, Nicholson...
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino was handed a note during the impeachment debate last Thursday afternoon. He glanced at it, then arched an eyebrow at CBS Reporter Roger Mudd, who followed a messenger from the committee room. Mudd learned that a bomb threat was about to interrupt the meeting and that the bomb's alleged location was in "a CBS camera." "I guess that this is one of those things that television brings," he said on the air during the ensuing recess...