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This also might be a workable plan for the uniformed station-wagon monkeys now wasting money, wool, metal (uniforms, pins), rubber and fuel...
...institution, a legend, the town's chief claim to a niche in history. Grizzled, bourbon-swigging, pistol-packing prospectors first struck the Argonaut about 1848, were soon whooping it up in the noisy, ramshackle saloons & cafes of nearby Jackson. Broken and empty bottles so cluttered the muddy, wagon-rutted streets that the town got its first name: Botilleas. On the great oak that stood on Main Street more than ten men were strung up. When nearby Double Springs was made county seat in 1851, civic-minded Jacksonians dashed over on horseback, hijacked the county seals, papers and archives. Every...
...allowed to slip into the taken-for-granted rut. If its value be proven, it should be retained. But if the test of its practical success or failure show it to have been merely a patriotic but unworkable gesture, and a hasty move to keep apace of the band-wagon of national enthusiasm, it should be rejected. The confusion amid which compulsory athletics is being whipped into shape must not be allowed to befog a later fair appraisal...
...head. He cannot quite rid himself of a pessimism that comes from knowing too much human history -an uneasy suspicion that when the dust has subsided, the groans have died away and radiant future has dimmed into present reality, the same old team will be found hauling the same wagon up the same hill. Only the faces on the driver's seat will have changed...
...such revealing anecdotes as Samuel Goldwyn's Hollywood-scented remark to Jascha Heifetz: "Money isn't everything, Mr. Heifetz. I can make you famous!" More typical of today, Author Ewen thinks, is Jose Iturbi's story of how he found the radio of a roadside lunch-wagon tuned to a Sunday evening symphony. The clatter melted into silence as customers, dishwashers, waitresses succumbed to the music's spell. But the counterman wasn't satisfied. "He scowled at four hamburgers sizzling on the griddle and carefully removed them...