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...thing in h'England?" On Tristan da Cunha, the only wage-earning job was in the local crayfish cannery, where everyone got the same pay. In England, the visitors could not comprehend the idea of different pay rates for different jobs. Argued one: "H'it h'ain't fair. They's not payin' me for no job. They's payin' me for one man's time. My time's wuth as much to me as h'anybody h'else...
...after a 4-ft. putt went awry during a practice round. But his complaints cut few divots with Britain's bookmakers, who installed him as the 2-to-1 favorite, or with his fellow pros. "Don't you worry about old Arnie," drawled Sam Snead. "'There ain't nothin' wrong with him that a two-stroke lead won't fix. He's just trying to sweet-talk that tough old course into lyin' down and playin' dead...
...over mess-hall coffee. Says a guard to a prisoner in solitary on bread and water: "White or rye?" Says an inmate to a guard: "Let's get one thing straight, McPherson: I live here, you just work here." Occasionally Reese slips into macabre, sick-style prison humor: "Ain't I a pain in the neck?" says the hangman to the condemned. But some of his cartoons rise to a choking pitch of bitterness, a stifled scream: "You with the dignity," a guard shouts at a curiously proud marcher in a gang of grey. "Get back in line...
...whippet of a man, with the manners of a Southern aristocrat and the look of a riverboat gambler. He never finished college, hated literary talk ("I'm not a literary man, I'm a retired farmer"), often spoke like a country yokel (spattering his conversation with ain'ts and double negatives), and drank like a desperate man. Above all, he was-like his forefathers before him-a Mississippian...
Barbershops ain't what they used to be. The once familiar "thin it out some on top, and no machine on the sides" has given way to an operation that sometimes lasts three hours, may include everything from a permanent wave to an eyelash tint, and can cost as much as twenty bucks. Like ruffled shirt fronts and cuff links the size of poker chips, it all seems to have started in Hollywood...