Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: I cannot tell you how happy your story on the New York Mets has made me [Sept. 5]. It was a beautiful story, written lovingly, with wonderful art. When I got to thinking of what the Old Master might be thinking about all that has happened this season, there was your man with the gospel according to Casey to wrap the story...
...Sir: Your unique blend of Biblical history and baseball is refreshing but obviously apocryphal. St. Jude, patron of hopeless cases, is more likely to show an avid interest in the Mets. On that great come-and-get-it-day, you will find that your "little team that can"-couldn't! Blessed are the Chicago Cubs for they shall inherit the East...
...Sir: As president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, I am compelled to protest the article entitled "Autos -Bargain Season" [Aug. 22]. Your reporter has indicted an industry vital to the economic well-being of this country with false and misleading statements that have discredited the vast majority of dealers who are quality merchants and community-minded citizens...
...Sir: I do not mean to reproach you, or even to give you the impression that I think you'd care if I did. But I do believe that the writer of the story on Vidal and me turned in a remarkable performance. "When they fence on television or in type, bitchiness erodes their polish and learned discourse dissolves into tantrums." The man who wrote that sentence doesn't know the difference between a tantrum and a psalm. The writer then goes on to stick into my mouth an unpleasant sentence I never wrote (the author of that...
...Caine and Sean Connery-each, in his own way, a predator starring in his own segment of the triple bill. Their prey, and the source of the drama's continuity, is Anna Calder-Marshall, an actress formidable enough at 21 to hold the stage opposite such intimidating costars. Sir Laurence Olivier is the narrator-host, providing bridges between the parts of Owen's "modern morality fable...