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Schlesinger added that he expects the widest party differences to occur in the Farm, Conservation, Labor, and all special interest programs, with Civil Service security also causing disagreement...
...Frying Pan is of a different sort. Catholic priest and the wife of his best friend quite suddenly find that they are in love with each other. Here is where a naturalist would lead his characters into the widest fights of criticism: the unfortunate, quite passionless husband would be painted in a pitiless, scoffing manner, and certainly the love scenes between priest and wife could be ignored in all their sordid and demented glory. But O'Connor merely comments, "He (the husband) as he really was, a man at war with his animal nature, longing for some high, solitary existence...
...young Marlon, better known in those days as Bud, life was an unbroken series of contests: Who could eat fastest, hold his breath longest, open his mouth widest, tell the biggest lie, do the least homework? One day he and some other boys invented the best game of all: Who can sink farthest in the quicksand along the river bank without hollering for help? (Luckily, nobody won.) Bud and sister Frances (now Mrs. Richard Loving, a painter, living in Mundelein, Ill.) ran away from home regularly every Sunday afternoon. On Saturdays Bud rummaged devotedly through the neighbors' rubbish, came...
...recent years, he faced the increasingly bitter taunts of the liberal arts professors, who have long called 120th Street "the widest street in the world." But each year, some 13,000 teachers and administrators flock to that street. They take courses in everything, from "ideological conflicts and education in Asia" to "family meals" (Cookery 203) and organic chemistry. Though the college does go in for such miscellany as tap dancing ("Well," says Russell, "what would you do if you were a teacher in a small country school on a rainy day?") and a two-week course for janitors, this...
Died. Austin Rosario ("Iron Glove") Maceo, 66, illiterate, Sicilian-born gambling czar of Galveston, Texas (pop. 66,568), which he helped make one of the widest-open towns in the U.S.; after a long illness; in Galveston. With his late brother Sam ("Velvet Glove"), Maceo became a Prohibition rumrunner, afterwards branched out with plush gambling clubs, raked in as much as $4,000,000 a year. In 1951, state legislators investigated his illegal empire, but could never get tolerant Galveston police to put Iron Glove in jail...