Word: wife
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John McGowan of the New York A.C., upset one year ago, returned and won the grand master singles for the fifth time in six years in 21:35.35. Sybil Nestor of New York's Sagamore R.C. won the women's title in 29:55.08, defeating McGowan's wife, Carol, by nearly two seconds...
Banality is a security blanket for Frank. He has been playing the standards in a routine fashion for years, stitching the songs together with chipper- inane prattle as featureless as his musicianship. He's just a guy supporting his offscreen wife, kids and mortgage in a way he finds more congenial than, say, selling aluminum siding. Banality is a hair shirt for Jack. His life is all squalid improvisation and silent disgust at tinkling out "piano stylings." He knows better, and he might do better, as a jazzman...
...scene of more than a few light moments. When the Mets were in the 1986 World Series, sports-junkie Woody showed up with a tiny transistor television and propped it up on his music stand so he could watch the game while he played. Trombonist Dick Dreiwitz and his wife Barbara, the tuba player, tell of a surprise visit by Groucho Marx. "After one of Woody's solos," says Barbara, "Groucho reached up and handed him a few pennies as a tip." Psychiatrist Ron Brady, a friend of Woody's, recalls the time a man claiming to be a biologist...
...knew something was wrong when I saw the first base dugout moving," Kennedy said. "My first thought was to look for my wife in the stands...
...joke, the father who works selling stocks and bonds represents "capital," the mother who is a house-wife represents "management," and the female maid stands for "labor." The punch line is that sometimes, capital "exploits" labor while management sleeps...