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Left-Wing Boy Scout. In Rexroth's world, people call him "Duke," a term used in hobo jungles for the classy fellow in a sub-society of declassed men. "It's no great compliment," says Rexroth. "The most affected girl in a whorehouse is usually called 'Duchess...
...duke, professor and poet, Rexroth functioned magnificently in the sub-worlds of Chicago, Greenwich Village and the syndicalist meeting halls of Seattle, until he came at last to the big rock candy mountains of San Francisco. From the time he was an eagle scout in Toledo, Ohio-operating, he claims, from what must have been the only left-wing gangsterized troop in America-Rexroth's big German-American farm boy's face shone with the vocation of the radical outsider proud of belonging to people who have no belongings. Whether he was selling snake oil to farmers...
Blitzed & Blocked. Pro Quarterback is meant for adults, and they take the game seriously. "My wife thinks I'm crazy," says Eagle Scout Michael Gorsky, 26, an electronics technician who vainly scrutinized Sentinel patterns for a weakness. "This is as much a real game as when the Giants are playing the Colts. Maybe it's more real, since I can play...
Working with Bell in New York will be Deputy Bureau Chief Nick Thimmesch, who will continue to scout New York politics; Peter Vanderwicken, whose speciality is economics; Marcia Gauger, who has been reporting business news; Christopher Cory, who concentrates on back-of-the-book stories; Rosalind Constable, who prepares a report on the cultural scene; Michael Parks and Robert Smith, who are general assignment reporters...
...distinct personality, a warmth. Dependable, forgiving, attentive, gracious and benevolent." What sounds like a paraphrase of the Boy Scout oath is the authors' sentimental tribute to an airplane, the DC-3, the twin-engine, 190 m.p.h. prop-driven craft that first flew 30 years ago and has entered Valhalla under its own power. Of the 10,000 built from 1936 to 1946, some 5,000 are still in the air, faithfully serving 174 airlines in 70 countries. In the heart of the jet age, the DC-3 still accounts for nearly one-third of the world...