Word: sours
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...monument to bountiful eating, the proprietor, Tommy, is a welcome contrast to his sour counter assistants. A congenial jokester who knows all his steady clients, Tommy is always willing to do a favor for those he likes. The store will cash small checks for destitute and hungry students. And, several years ago, Tommy spread two checkered table cloths, lighted candles, and personally served a blacktie dinner for some Poonies...
...could order up a quarterback," said Giants' Coach Allie Sherman, "you would order up one like Fran Tarkenton." The one sour note was sounded by Norm Van Brocklin, Fran's coach for six years on the Vikings. Said Van Brocklin, who quit his job last month, mostly because he could not get along with Tarkenton: "There are two types of quarterbacks-those who carry a team and those who have to be carried by the team. Francis will win some games he shouldn't win, but he'll lose some games he shouldn't lose...
About the only sour note was struck by East Germany's intransigent Walter Ulbricht, an old Communist who has yet to come in from the cold. Ulbricht lavished praise on the Soviet Union's exhibit-considered by most Western fairgoers to be Russia's most mediocre in years. And he notably managed to ignore the fair's biggest (and perhaps best) exhibit: that of West Germany...
...1940s (My Man Godfrey, Destry Rides Again), the orphaned son of a czarist naval officer, who at one point during the Bolshevik revolution roamed Russia with a pack of parentless children before a grandfather brought him to the U.S., eventually made his way to Hollywood, where his borsch-and-sour-cream accent and rolling-eyed comedy won him fame; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...roistering in the city, Morrison prowls beyond the gorge and encounters the Lani, a tribe of bushmen. Among these simple, amoral savages, he rediscovers the unsophisticated pleasures, the quick and easy friendships of a time when "all tastes were like summer and youth, before alcohol and tobacco and sour love...