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...half-time, Ford made some key strategic changes. He assigned center fullback Mark Zimering to cover Columbia's speedy center forward full time. Wing fullbacks Hargadon and Ralph Booth dropped back a little to compensate...
...tavern, polling place, post of fice and home for the Surratt family, and the area became known as Surrattsville. After Surratt died in 1862, his widow Mary leased the building and moved to Washington, where she opened a boardinghouse. It was there, in 1865, that John Wilkes Booth plotted the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. One of Booth's associates, John Lloyd, turned state's evidence and implicated Mrs. Surratt in the conspiracy...
Though Lloyd had been drunk during the critical conversation with Mrs. Surratt, an overzealous military court accepted his testimony. The widow-whose last words to a priest were "Father, I am innocent"-was hanged in July 1865 along with three alleged members of Booth's cabal. The U.S. Government, meanwhile, had changed the name of Surrattsville to Robeystown; today, it is known as Clinton...
Here are Peter Arno's ageless chorines and satyrs; Helen Hokinson's gaggle of club women; Saul Steinberg's pun-and-ink illuminations; the Thurber people who always reminded Dorothy Parker of unbaked cookies. Here, too, is the ir repressible new generation of arche types: George Booth's slatternly couples-obviously the illegitimate descendants of George Price's cluttered screwballs; Lee Lorenz' literate animals, minerals and vegetables; and Ed Koren's celebrated shaggy people stories...
...overwhelmed by the novel's bitterly comic vision: a world in which an eleven-year-old boy known as "JR" parlays a bid to supply the Army with 9,000 gross of wooden picnic forks into a multinational conglomerate. Barely literate, he works out of a telephone booth and gets his leads by subscribing to dozens of commercial magazines and catalogues...