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Lancey Hodges was The Man, the recognized king of the three-river gambling circuit. No nerves at all. "That sonsabitch is cold," an old-timer said of Lancey. "I ain't got much faith in nothin' that will take him. He likes being...
...gone." Ready or not, the Kid won't back out, and he and Lancey play in a plush St. Louis hotel room. "Once you go in," the Shooter says, "you can't quite. Two of you go in and only one of you can come out, 'cause there ain't room...
...fado by lifting its emotional sights to the level of pain, nostalgia and despair. Such suffering is delicious to the Portuguese, and the fados cover everything-defeated souls, wasted nights, strange shadows. Americans who have a feeling for the blues can understand the spirit of the fado, but you ain't really been blue till you've felt the fado...
...Senate last week to ornament a dreary debate. "Mr. President," orated Ev, "there is such a word as 'euphemism.' I do not think I have looked it up for years, but I suppose a 'euphemism' is 'something that seems like what it ain't.' Perhaps that is as good a definition as I can give. I am reminded of the man who filled in an application for an insurance policy. One of the questions he had to answer was 'How old was your father when he died and of what...
...were bus ily installing a saltwater conversion plant which would ease the perennial water shortage, thus doing away with the "honeypot" latrines that have created a gleaming yellow man-made gla cier in the middle of the base. Navymen naturally echo the Rodgers-and«Ham-merstein plaint, "We ain't got dames," but ham radio at least gives them a chance to talk to wives and girls back home at less than the cost of a normal Stateside long-distance call. McMurdo's post office has even sprouted ZIP Code...