Word: stratton
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Nakasone's subsequent talks on Capitol Hill went better than he had expected. Legislators gave him some blunt talk about U.S.-Japanese relations, but most seemed impressed by his desire to be accommodating. As Democratic Congressman Samuel Stratton of New York put it, "We think he is trying to do more than anybody has done before...
DIED. Monty Stratton, 70, "aw shucks" Texas farm boy who inspired The Stratton Story, a bathetic Hollywood biography starring James Stewart as the White Sox pitching ace whose career seemingly ended when his leg was amputated after a hunting accident in 1938, but who strapped on an artificial limb and returned eight years later as a winning minor-league pitcher; of lung cancer; in Greenville, Texas. When the film debuted in 1949, Stratton drawled: "It's my life, all right. I'll just hope folks will think it was worth making into a movie...
...really pleased that we made a showing at all after all the work it took to get here," team co-Captain Kathy Stratton said. "Whether we get the support from our athletic department or not, we're going to keep coming to the tournament...
...book is at its best when Stratton quotes long segments of the memoirs without interruption. The ungarnished language of these pioneers presents a quiet celebration of lives simply lived, without grand ambition, self-glorification or moralizing, Mother never judged, one frontier daughter recalls. "She always saw all sides and nothing seemed to horrify her, for she always made allowances for human frailty." To survive from day to day was regarded an achievement deserving of praise. Esther Clark remembered her mother's solo wagon ride to save their sheep from a flooding river and how later the men cheered "Leny...
...account of captivity and a subsequent forced marriage to an Indian, and a description of the Victoria settlement--an abortive experiment by a band of pretentious Britons who brought their teacups and lace to Anglicize the West. Unfortunately, the memoirs fail to encompass all types of pioneer women; as Stratton notes in her forward, "the voices of the marginal women"--the poorest working classes, the barmaids and prostitutes, the Black women and Native Americans--have gone unrecorded...