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...comebacks; they are reinventions. In 1994 he reappeared as the Zen Master. Refreshed by the analyst's couch and the preachments of coach Brad Gilbert, Agassi drifted through the U.S. Open draw, unseeded and unheeded, until he was the only one standing--a focused player on the court, a spouter of self-improvement blather off it. Hey, it was Deepak/Oprah...
...Navy during World War II. During his work he made tapes of underwater sounds, later tried them out on an ancient mariner from the whaling port of New Bedford. One sound always got an instantaneous response from the ex-whaler: "That's a sperm snappin' his spouter...
Matthew Neely is 75, a spouter of purple poetry and a wearer of tweed suits which come in shades of lemon and green. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, and a tireless joiner (Elk, Moose, Odd Fellow, Mason), Matt Neely is an ex-Congressman from West Virginia, served a term as governor of his state, is now in his fourth term as U.S. Senator. On the record, Senator Neely is a politician...
Last week the Guv'nor traveled to "Spouter's Corner" in Hyde Park (London's Union Square) to explain the theory and practice of house snatching. Before his speech, Cowley's Brighton boys gave a practical demonstration by "snatching" an empty house in London's Maida Vale for an Army gunner's wife and sick daughter. Said the Guv'nor grimly: the Vigilantes had put their fingers on one of Britain's aching nerves; from all over the country requests were pouring in for the formation of new Vigilante groups. In Clacton...
Mississippi-born Playwright Williams has done many things besides write plays. Since graduating from the State University of Iowa, he has been a bellhop, an elevator operator, a movie usher, a teletyper, a warehouse handyman, a waiter and spouter of verse in a Greenwich Village nightclub. He has also changed his name, because he thought his real name, Thomas Lanier Williams, "sounded too much like William Lyon Phelps...