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Like Prices, the hemline, and the St. Louis Browns, pinball ain't what it used to be. The science of the gentle nudge and superb timing has become the sport of flashing lights, clanging bells, and Lady Luck...
...Army combat jacket and a G.I. wool cap climbed out of an excavation across the street. "What's happening, Mac?" he asked. I told him they were going to unveil a plaque marking the approximate spot where the atom bomb started five years ago this afternoon. "They ain't makin' no bombs there now, are they?" he asked. I told him I didn't think so. He said: "Wadda ya know" and went back down in the excavation...
Another cockney called the palace "the poorhouse." Rebuked, he answered: "Why not, they're living on our charity, ain't they?" Any American who read malice or even envy into this would be not only wrong, but fiercely resented. The cockney wanted the royal family living just that way, and he wanted it the more fiercely as his "charity" pinched...
...Levee Board; James Monroe ("Doc") Smith, president of the university; and big George Caldwell, superintendent of buildings at L.S.U. There were others, like Robert Maestri (rhymes with pastry), the conservation commissioner who later became New Orleans' mayor. And there was Earl, Huey's less talented brother. "I ain't like Huey," Earl admitted. "I gotta go slower...
Long and Jimmy Morrison got down on all fours, playing the game of politics. Morrison confided last week: "The other day I got my rumor factory goin' on the story that Earl has cancer of the throat. I know it ain't so, but that's politics...