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Gardner: Wow...
...inspired," rhapsodized Rene MacColl, U.S. correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. "What a transformation has taken place in Washington. Where before there was doubt, dreariness and defeatism, now a great wave of excitement and eagerness has transformed the United States. When Kennedy and Khrushchev finally meet-wow!" Other British newsmen were not far behind. AMERICA GOES TO IT, headlined the London Daily Mail, feeling buoyant even after Kennedy's sobersided State of the Union message; KENNEDY'S CALL PUTS A ZING IN THE AIR. The hardheaded Economist, which had been cool to Kennedy before...
...stabled at the Gotham Hotel. "This canvas inspector finished several breakfasts one Sunday morning," Fowler tells in one of the book's funnier anecdotes, "and was trying to read the comic pages of the American. He had just about mastered the spelling of the hard word 'Wow!' in a Barney Google episode when the bells of nearby St. Patrick's began to ring...
...other times, the dancing and music are nice enough. And dozens of times, there is Silvers in a fine sweat to make headlines or wow headwaiters, and a bit of a wow himself in the way he enters, or looks around or at, or shakes a leg or shouts a line, or exits. And as Silvers' wife, and deserving a bigger role, there is Nancy Walker, who can look wonderfully around or at, or over or through, or can sidle or sock, or be touchingly human. The music's pleasures come in what amusing lines can do along...
Yovicsin said in the post-game press conference--as the strains of "Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow, Wow, Wow" came down from the visiting team's showers--said that he hoped Ravenel's triumphant touchdown was some sort of reward for his Harvard career. "Not nearly as great as winning, of course," the poised and calm Yovicsin said of "the greatest player I have ever coached...