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Classmates and professors recall Nino as exceptionally bright, diligent, and fun to be around. He loved to argue in an unassuming way, usually espousing a conservative view point. He made people laugh with his quick wit, they say, told good Italian jokes and played the bugle surprisingly well...
...insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. He talks as the man of his age talks--that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness...
...pulp pages of this monthly. At no extra cost, Black Mask came wrapped in an irony. It was founded with $500 in 1920 by the journalist and scholar H.L. Mencken and the playwright George Jean Nathan as a way of financing the unprofitable Smart Set, their magazine of uptown wit and sophisticated prose. The "louse," as Mencken called his detective journal, was an immediate success, and in six months he sold it for $100,000, the price of 10 million words...
That may be because the word 'president' has been attached to Brian's name a number of times already. To wit: Brian was national president of the 900-chapter Junior Classical League as a senior in high school, class president of his Florida public high school in his junior year, governor of Boy's State, Florida state president of the national honors society, college resident of the Junior Classical League, and chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council. Brian's Government Department thesis was on presidential disability and succession...
...Cuomo style is a mixture of warmth and wit. He is simpatico. As a reporter embarks on a question, Cuomo yells out, "I deny it! I deny it!" He describes something that irks him as "just a walnut in the batter of eternity." In the midst of a conversation Cuomo is having with an elderly woman from Queens, his press secretary, Martin Steadman, sneezes while she is talking. "That's a Yiddish sign," she says, "that the person talking is telling the truth." Cuomo turns to Steadman: "Next time, see if you can sneeze while I'm talking...