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...huge dude, his muscles rippling, speaks in a cool bass: "I got a pah" of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes my clothes 15 times a day. Learn to hustle girls, and you can wear dark shades and sharkskin suits and ride a big white Caddy." Riff the horn player sniffs in disgust. "You've got to have dignity, boy, you be nothing without dignity. The only way to beat the Man is be going to school. Go back to school...
...paper, where he rose from reporter to assistant managing editor in four years, and later at Knight's Detroit Free Press. Neuharth joined Gannett in 1963 and was president by 1970, leading some colleagues to snipe that his rise came a little too fast. "When Al wears a sharkskin suit," a friend once observed, "it's hard to tell where the shark stops and he begins...
Republican Party pros scoffed when Big John Connally, 62, announced that he was running for President. "A slick Lyndon Johnson," sneered one, "A wheeler-dealer in a sharkskin suit," gibed another. Now, only two months later, the jeering has stopped. Concedes Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, campaign chairman for Front Runner Ronald Reagan: "Connally is coming on like gangbusters...
...stag. We must gravitated to each other, cause everybody else was there to see Johnny Mathis, and we were there to see this guy play out front for the Isleys. This guy played like a maniac and we both knew he was gonna end up being Jimi Hendrix. Green sharkskin suit, patent leather shoes--he was wearing a do-rag then. He played a Strat--old or fake?--Lefthanded. Custom. Remember when they did "Shout"? how maniac...
After all," he reasoned, "Hollywood is as American as the American Revolution, so a blue-green sharkskin suit from the '30s should do the trick...