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...sent to the Missouri State Penitentiary, where he gained a measure of fame among the convicts by hitting a fellow inmate over the head with a baseball bat. When he got out last year, he was 21a short, heavy-shouldered, brooding youth with a pimply, undershot chin, and the legend H-a-r-d L-u-c-k tattooed on his knuckles...
...scope and direction of his plans. Wearing the blue, pinstriped suit in which he had been sworn in earlier in the day, Wilson was the first to arrive in the shining marble hall in the Senate Office Building. He tucked his big hands into his side pockets, pulled his chin firmly back and greeted Congressmen pleasantly as they straggled...
...constant flow of warnings from, his typewriter penetrates East Germany. Before the zone's rigged October election, the underground blanketed the countryside with posters and carefully documented pamphlets blasting Red nominees as crooks and stooges. Bald, professorial Lawyer Friedenau, whose black sideburns reach almost to his chin, boasts that as a result of underground activity 70% of East zone finance offices recently refused to enforce Communist directives expropriating business enterprises...
Sweetening. Muggsy well remembers the old wave. He had learned his broad, lazy, middle-register style as a scrawny kid, sitting on the curb outside Chicago's Pekin Cafe, listening chin-in-hand to the stream of notes pouring from the golden horns of Joe ("King") Oliver and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. He got his first job at 14, blew his head off from 8:30 at night to 4:30 in the morning for $25 a week...
...modern Everyman, Randall has Everyman's troubles with Nobody's ability to handle them. On page 11 he meets an "older woman" of 26 on a London tram. Only 20, and at his author's mercy, "Randall saw the full lips and not the weak chin," and so they were married. "Her hot shallow passion . . . roused convulsive feelings in Randall . . . The deep wells within him gushed with tenderness . . . And then peace descended on them both . . . like night coming down upon a tropical sunset"-in a London hotel...