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...common trait of almost all Americans, and that's one reason this country has done so well." Could it be, Allen persisted, that Rockefeller was considered a "soft touch" by his employees? Rockefeller shot back: "I don't think I've been a sucker...
...Entitled "Lessons in How to Make Odds," the Greek's tutorial services cost $565,000 with an optional extra: purchase of all his 1975 handicaps for $875,000. Jimmy tells TIME'S magi that he is betting 2 to 1 that he will not sign a single sucker...
What makes Macdonald original, perhaps irreplaceable as a pan-critic (in both senses of "pan") is in fact a latent romanticism. More than his victims can appreciate, he is a genial curmudgeon, teetering on the very edge of hope. He growls partly to keep from being played for a sucker. Macdonald might even be called an American Bernard Shaw, if Shaw had written only prefaces or if Macdonald had written plays. Besides, that is to say, these marvelous little one-act monologues, featuring the persona he made of himself. ·Melvin Maddocks...
Stone speaks Spanish in Miami's Cuban community, plays the harmonica for the country boys, and even broke an arm leaping over a tennis net for a photographer. Both candidates are conservative. Eckerd wants to cut spending; Stone wants "Uncle Sucker" to stop the foreign aid giveaways. A tossup...
There is a middle ground. I am a sucker for all the splendid sentiments that disinterested baseball lovers will produce on the beauty of the game. Forming theories on the geometry of baseball, the individual in baseball, or the uniqueness of baseball among major sports in a favorite occupation...