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...well along toward becoming the greatest running back college football had ever seen. He was late reporting to the Buffalo Bills training camp because he held out for a bigger salary. "Money means everything to the ghetto kids who don't have any," he explained. "I want to do youth work. If I can show them I got something from sports, they'll respect me. When I was a kid, Willie Mays was my hero. Not because he was a good baseball player. But because he had a big house...
Much like Sorrow's central character, Kien, Ninh put his thoughts and experiences on paper long after the war's end. Though the author says his tale "is pure fiction," there are other similarities. Both writer and character are decorated soldiers in the NVA's 27th Youth Brigade. Each is among the unit's 500 conscripts who enter the war in the bloody Central Highlands -- and one of only nine survivors by the time the unit becomes the first to march into Saigon in 1975. After he was demobilized in 1976, Ninh tried university for a while and then quit...
...will -- and do -- meet that schedule every day," he told Bragg. "My only regret is to die four pages too soon." Sticking a cigarette between fingers crippled by arthritis, then puffing on "this lovely tube of delight," he said he was a physical coward in his youth. But now, dying, "you find out that in fact, at the last, thank God, you're not actually a coward...
...rage against Murdoch was part of a general anger at the present for not living up to the image in the gilded rearview mirror Potter held to his youth. In Blue Remembered Hills he re-created his West Country childhood (but with adult actors as the kids). He larded his breakthrough series, Pennies from Heaven, with sentimental tunes from his '30s infancy. "Childhood," Potter said, "is full to the brim with fear, horror, excitement, joy, boredom, love, anxiety." He was welcome to cherish his youth; he never got to savor...
...large chunk of untraceable cash -- a phrase that is pure music to a mobster's ears. Police sources told Time last week that the Mob runs some scalping operations in New York and other large cities. Blocks of tickets earmarked by performers for charities such as impoverished youth groups, for example, are instead often delivered to Mafia operatives and end up in the hands of upper-middle-class fans, who can then brag that they know someone who knows "someone important" with access to tickets...