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...indescribable Yastrzemski seemed to be saying "yes" when he popped a ninth-inning homer, his 14th of the year, to close the scoring for the game; but the memory of the "pinstriped plague" that devasted Boston has to sour sweet old Fenway's pennant dreams...
...Pope's brother Edoardo, a retired schoolteacher, told how Albino grew up, "torn between the devil and holy water," his mother a devout Catholic, his father an itinerant laborer who spouted an old-fashioned anticlerical socialism. In one of the few sour comments on Luciani's election, an 80-year-old man in his native village of Canale d'Agordo grumbled: "It's a scandal, this election of this Pope. He's a very good man, but his father burned crucifixes in his stove...
...case of sour grappa? Possibly. The figures paid for books are impressive, but to recoup a multimillion-dollar investment today, paperback publishers must tout their products like new cars. Record-sale publicity is one way. And, of course, there are gimmicks and advertising blitzes for the soon-to-be-made-into-a-major-motion-picture that augment the hard-sell paperback commercials on radio...
Jacobson's business ventures ran into difficulties, and he began to borrow heavily from friends. His romance with Cain started to sour. When she left, he was enraged. He pleaded with her to come back and apologized for past difficulties. When that failed, according to one report, he offered Tupper $100,000 to give her up. It was to get away from him that she was out apartment hunting on the day Tupper disappeared. Said she: "We were going to move out of that building. I wanted to get as far away from that crumb as I possibly could...
...approached the ol' field-goal maker for a pre-concert interview, I could tell it was going to be tough. The combination of the haircut, the summer weather and the teenyboppers milling around had put the grizzled old guy in a sour mood...