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...night of poker, a pungent wisecrack. Jack Kennedy made him a frequent target for teasing, and Pierre never seemed to mind it: "Plucky Pierre," they called him. When he refused to keep a pledge to hike 50 miles, Pierre explained: "I may be plucky, but I ain't stupid...
...with their grapefruit-league schedule well under way, the hustling Yankees had four wins in eight games, were showing only flashes of midseason form. Manager Berra was copping his first plea. "Just in case we lose a few and you guys want to know why," he grumped, "we ain't playing to win down here...
...because "educated people pay attention to their views. For example, in the February, 1962 Readers's Digest..." Publisher Ginzburg tells us about his courageous interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, someone who "proves it can happen here." And finally, a man named Bennett, clearly a member of the if-it-ain't-filthy-it-ain't-real school of psychoanalysis, probes the sexual symbolism of Christmas. Not surprisingly, Santa comes out of it, Father Santa. How dull...
...ruined. In What You Hear from 'Em?, Aunt Muncie, the Negro housekeeper, retains a measure of dignity only as long as she can believe that the two white boys she raised for a widowed doctor will come back home to live. But when she realizes that "they ain't never coming back," she feels somehow demeaned and resorts to "old nigger foolishness...
...pollsters rarely reach the farmers and retired old people who live along these roads. When a stranger calls to one of them as he wipes the mud off his tractor's engine with a stick, the farmer ambles over to the road's edge, considering the question: "I ain't sure, Mister. I ain't sure I should say even if I was sure...