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...more important, never inflated him. In short, says Solti's American Manager Ann Colbert, "Valerie took him off the pedestal." The aura of happy domesticity sits well on Solti these days. He has even been known to end an evening's rehearsal early to go home and tuck his first child. Daughter Gabrielle, now 3, into...
...size," who is reminiscent of the one Bill Veeck fielded with the 1951 St. Louis Browns; and an ancient third baseman who naps between innings. There is also a one-armed right fielder who, unlike the Browns' Pete Gray, does not even have a stump under which to tuck his glove while throwing the ball. He puts the ball in his mouth while removing his glove. If it gets stuck there, the result can be as costly as "an inside-the-mouth grand-slam home...
...most celebrated political prankster is Dick Tuck, a longtime California Democratic politician who has been unusually quiet this year. During Richard Nixon's 1962 campaign for Governor of California, Tuck donned a railman's cap and signaled the engineer of a Nixon train to pull out. Nixon, speaking at the rear, was in mid-sentence as he saw his crowd suddenly begin to recede. Tuck also filled some of Nixon's Chinese fortune cookies during the 1960 presidential campaign with slips saying "Kennedy will...
...same as hiring former CIA agents to break into a party headquarters and install eavesdropping equipment. Nor is it the same as amassing a huge fund to finance political spying and disruption. Somewhere in the whole furtive, earnest enterprise, the fun of political prankstering disappeared. Bring back Dick Tuck...
...nine will go their separate ways, possibly on the bus home retelling just once more the tale they've told a 100 times already: and when its time to hit the crib they'll take off, neatly fold up, and tuck away the fondest memory they've every known--a maroon rowing shirt with a white Harvard...