Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three conductors and a plain-clothes cop until the train reached the next station, whereupon wino and muscatel went flying out the door. The other wino was the more genteel type--and she kept me company from D.C. to New York last Christmas. She was a sweet old Southern lady--74 years old, she kept telling me--with a habit of pulling on a flask of "Irish Rose" wine every five minutes. By the time we hit Baltimore she was polluted and getting rancher every minute. Having had enough of this Blanche DuBois-Belle Reve trip, I pretended...
...prepared to take over the Omni, a glittering Atlanta complex of offices, swank shops, hotel and ice rink, because the Omni's owners were failing to pay off $90 million in debts. And last week Richard Kattel, boy-wonder chairman of Georgia's largest bank, Citizens and Southern National (assets: $3.5 billion), quit in frustration. His reason: Comptroller of the Currency John G. Heimann, the chief U.S. banking regulator, had just forced C & S to reclassify as questionable an additional $11 million in loans, mostly on real estate. That will convert the skimpy $3.2 million profit that...
...infantrymen: Mart Winch, John Strange, Bobby Prell and Marion Landers. All noncoms from the same outfit, three of them wounded, the fourth ill with the same kind of congestive heart condition that killed Jones, they ship home from the Pacific to a military hospital close by Luxor, a fictional Southern city on the Mississippi. There "the days passed with a swift inexorability that was the essence of a tragedy in a drama." And there the four muddle through a sequence of implausibly pathetic fates. The rushed, bumpy narrative seems less a novel than an outline. One situation is "pretty dire...
...family eventually wound up in California, where they lived in towns all up and down the southern coast. Warren had a music teacher who contrived to introduce the young student to Stravinsky (an album autographed by the master is Warren's "most prized possession"). But the influence of the great composer during Warren's subsequent visits to see him in his home above Sunset Boulevard was supplemented by a rough-and-tumble education at high school. Warren quit when he was 15, around the time his parents split up. He tried living with his father for a while...
Geoff Stiles, entering the meet as one of the East's top collegiate pole vaulters, led a trio of Harvard finishers with a vault of 16 ft. 4 in., to put Harvard ahead of New England rivals Northeastern, Rhode Island and Southern Connecticut...