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...perfectly comfortable Senate seat because he imagined the work might be more restful than politics. "As Governor of Kentucky," says Chandler, 85, "I signed 36 death warrants. Two of them were hanged for rape in the courthouse yard." But as he was soon to learn-and as Ford Frick, Spike Eckert and Bowie Kuhn all discovered in turn-the commissioner's job is not unlike presiding at such an occasion while being the object of the exercise at the same time...
...dresses as though he lives in a duckblind, but he took off his camouflage when the linebackers put theirs on. The only member in his club (34-year-old running backs who get stronger as they go), Riggins is an honorary Hog but avoids the Fun Bunch. His touchdown spike is the most distinctive in the game: he flips the ball to the nearest official. The ceremony has been performed 29 times this season...
Four centuries are represented in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack Prelutsky ($13.95). William Blake is here; so are Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, alongside such modern versifiers as Spike Milligan, Eve Merriam and Karla Kuskin. A zoo of creatures passes in review, from pachyderms ("I think they had no pattern/ When they cut out the elephant's skin;/ Some places it needs letting out,/ And others, taking in") to birds ("The song of canaries/ Never var ies,/ And when they're moulting/ They're pretty revolting"). Anthologist Prelutsky gives equal time...
...Infidels, he seems reconciled to restlessness. He also sounds full of fight and the same kind of lacerating spite that passes through the heart like a spike. Jokerman, the album's stunning opener, carries a typically barbed and enigmatic rebuke: "You're going to Sodom and Gomorrah/ But what do you care? Ain't nobody there would want to marry your sister." The jokerman of the title, like many of Dylan's metaphorical protagonists, is part salvation hunter, part satanic twister, and the whole record is like a loosely arranged pilgrim's progress through emotional...
Harvard sophomore KENTON JERNIGAN (right) toppled Spike Gonplex, 15-9, 15-3, 15-3 in first-round action of the 1983 Boston Squash Open this past weekend...