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Proof is spread all over the pages of his new novel, the consistently funny story of the heartland rube who went to New York dressed in an inferiority complex and won through to the jackpot. Midwesterner Jack Jordan has written a book-club selection in his spare time while working at the old family foundry (Bissell himself had worked at the old family pajama factory). When a couple of brash young producers summon him to New York and ask him to turn the book into a play, he feels like an impostor. But with the help of a shrewd director...
...much control, one sportswriter reported, as a drunken swallow-one wild pitch shattered a grandstand chair. But the Cleveland Indians knew they had a natural. In August of that year Feller made his first official start. He fanned 15 St. Louis Browns, just one short of Rube Waddell's record for a single game...
...lunches and tank-town audiences. To him, it was a school of inventive self-reliance peopled with lovable oddballs. A gaudy branch of human botany, vaudeville finds in Fred Allen an affectionate and scrupulous botanist who cherishes every last contortionist, hypnotist, iron-jawed lady, human xylophone, one-armed cornetist, rube comedian, Hindu conjurer and clay modeler who ever played a split week east of Lompo,. Calif. or west of Maiden, Mass...
Devised by Rube. True to his promise, Mollet last week made public the terms of a new $429 million bond issue that might have been devised by Rube Goldberg. The new bonds will not only pay 5% interest annually- many stocks on the Paris Bourse pay less than 3%-but also carry a built-in hedge against inflation. If, when the bonds come up for redemption-the last of them will mature in 1971-average stock prices on the Bourse have increased, the face value of the bonds will be increased proportionately. A fall in stock prices, however, will...
...Rube!" Unmarried female carnies are chaperoned wherever they go. The single male may indulge himself as he pleases, but once he dates a carny girl, he must go steady with her for the rest of the season. The whole carnival celebrates a marriage or a birth. There are showers for the brides, showers for babies, collections for both. In all his affairs-his religion, home life, the way he brings up his children-the carny is left strictly alone. But if ever he is in physical danger or trouble, all he needs do is shout "Hey, Rube!" and every carny...