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...When the World folded in 1931, he went over to the Republican Herald Tribune. His column, "Today and Tomorrow," made him a celebrity; at its peak, it was carried by more than 200 papers and was considered required reading up and down the corridors of power. "Zip!" sang a stripper in the Broadway musical Pal Joey, "Walter Lippmann wasn't brilliant today." A series of TV interviews in the '60s exposed him to millions more who had never read...
...helped the Colucci family collect gambling debts and gave unorthodox religious instructions to his son: "There are ten commandments. Right? Well, it's like an exam. I mean, you get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class." Mother Shapiro is a former stripper and late-blooming porno actress who pops the eyes of Joshua's adolescent friends with a fan dance at her son's bar mitzvah...
...Stripper oil: Any big oil company with a well that yields less than 10 bbl. per day will pay a 60% tax on that oil, above a base rate of $16 per bbl. Smaller companies will pay at a 30% rate...
...Williston Basin of North Dakota and eastern Montana, an important producing area in the 1950s. They are also exploring for oil in the Overthrust Belt, which runs down the Rocky Mountains, and they are going after gas in Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and central Louisiana. Across the country, small "stripper" wells and others that once would have been abandoned as uneconomic are being kept open...
...rather walk through Quincy Market. He'd like to start at Regina's and then grab maybe a couple of dozen chocolate chip cookies and some souvlaki, with a big finish at Durgin Park and maybe a half-gallon of beer. Zimmer's face looks like an aging Vegas stripper's silicone-sagging buttocks. He's already cost the club a fortune, what with bolstering the dugout bench and increased drag on the team bus, and he's not exactly defraying the expenses with World Series checks. And look what he's done to the country: House Speaker...