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...Corps during World War II. A forebear, Robert R. Livingston, administered the oath of office to President-elect George Washington. Eddie Cox wears tweed jackets and speaks in impeccable prep-school accents. He earned the wry nickname "Fast Eddie" at Manhattan's Trinity School-after a dissolute pool shark in The Hustler, whom the studious Cox scarcely resembles-because he was a stickler for deadlines when editor of the school paper. He drives an old Ford station wagon and regularly runs up the six flights to his Cambridge apartment. ("This building is full of elderly widows," he says...
...younger pilots are a curious combination of professional soldier and green high school graduate: If they are not in one of the starchier units like the 101st, they decorate their machines like so many jalopies-or minibuses. Wicked-looking to begin with, Cobras are even more fearsome when shark's teeth, skulls or lightning bolts are painted on them. And naturally, there are names. One Huey sports THE GRIM REAPER. A gunship is emblazoned with KILLING IS OUR BUSINESS AND BUSINESS is GOOD. Then there is the black pilot, possibly mythical, who flies a UH-1 named-what else...
...only a basking shark...
...impact of Actor Jackie Gleason on Rudolph Walter Wanderone Jr. goes on and on. When Gleason played a pool shark called Minnesota Fats in The Hustler (1961), Wanderone, then known as New York Fats, was moved to sue. But the cash value of the movie's publicity made him change his mind-and his monicker; instead of trying to beat them, he joined them. As Minnesota Fats, he prospered, became president of a billiards-equipment company and starred in a TV show. Now he, not Gleason, is playing Minnesota Fats in a movie called The Player, currently being shot...
Unfortunately, this maneuver exposes the fish to the possibility of being hit and killed by passing ships. The shark, after rotting or being eaten as it washes in, may then be mistaken for a sea serpent. This may have been the case with Cecil, the once celebrated sea monster whose remains at last word were being unceremoniously fed to the New England Aquarium's garbage disposal...