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Weaned in a seedy Baltimore saloon and shunted off to a Catholic trade school for the underprivileged by his bartender father, Ruth was only 19 when he became a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles in the International League and the legal ward of the Oriole manager. In 1915, one season later, he moved up to the majors and won 18 games as a lanky lefthander for the Boston Red Sox. After that he put together winning seasons of 23 and 24 games each, plus victories in three World Series starts, before he changed from pitching to full-time batting...
Chronologically, the images stretch from the first page of the first story in the first issue-a Saturday night in Fort Peck, Mont., in 1936, where WPA workers are whooping it up at a local saloon -to a recent moment when Dick Cavett made fun of TV talk shows by interviewing Louis, his own poodle. The book embraces one Depression, five wars, five Presidents, and that picture of Rita Hayworth in a black-bodiced, white satin nightgown. Fiorello La Guardia appears, blowing smoke rings with bemused insouciance. So does Nikita Khrushchev, shaking his fist in the face...
...runs $2 more. The park attempts to re-create the spirit of the Butterfield stagecoach days with hay rides, an old-fashioned swimming hole, community cookouts and country-music shows. The focal point is an old Wild West village; on Sunday, church services are held in the Jemu saloon, with the obligatory nude paintings over the bar turned toward the wall...
...Giulio Andreotti. The President himself led the standing ovation after Ol' Man River and called his visiting star "the Washington Monument of entertainment." Afterward, Sinatra went back to his newly rented Washington town house and gave a party for a few friends, including Spiro Agnew. Hanging over the saloon-sized bar was a plaque with the proverb: "Living well is the best revenge...
...another's cliché−and are anxious to make sure we know they know. Therefore they stress the mythic overtones that pop cultists are always finding in the standard western forms. All the ritual scenes−Eastwood's menacing entrance ride down Main Street, the saloon confrontation and the barbershop Shootout that establish his credentials as a law-and-order man−are handled so that the emphasis is on archetypicality rather than on believable action...