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Carter is not exactly a grand old English name. The first Carters were, of course, carters, medieval truck drivers. Yet despite the family's hoi-polloi origins and plain-folks posture, Jimmy Carter's family tree turns out to have some hoity-toity upper limbs. The President is related to, among others, Queen Elizabeth I, George Washington, three other previous Presidents and the first American millionaire...
Morrison takes a critical look at many aspects of the Times, but came away impressed by the paper's completeness and ubiquity. Says Morrison with a pinch of hyperbole: "If a tree falls in the forest and there is no New York Times reporter there to record it, the tree never fell. But then there are so many Times reporters around the world that hardly a tree falls that isn't recorded...
...nights, Amy sometimes retreats to her tree house, a platform five feet up among the leaves and boasting a hammock. Just to remind everyone that politics can never be totally absent, the President also saw to it that an invitation to the tree house was extended to the daughter of a Republican Congressman who had supported his opposition to natural-gas deregulation...
...spot turns out to be a street in Brooklyn Heights overlooking New York harbor, with Manhattan as a cinemascopic background. Superman, after a hard day's work going faster than a speeding bullet and leaping tall buildings at a single bound, spots a cat caught in a tree and swoops down to the rescue. How does he swoop? How, in fact, does he fly? Ah, that is the reason for the cloaks and the daggers: the producers are terrified a photographer will follow the reporter and show Superman being held up by a 100-ft. crane and wires. Says...
...vacations spent on beaches dark with oil from ships sunk off the New Jersey coast by German U-boats. Hoopes found hundreds of nostalgic oddments. One man remembers a lapel button: "It showed Uncle Sam, and when you pulled the string. Uncle Sam pulled Hitler up on a tree limb and hanged him. The slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo up in a bag to make it look like butter?" Restaurants posted a sign: USE LITTLE SUGAR AND STIR LIKE HELL. WE DON'T MIND THE NOISE. Radio stations...