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...Hsieh Chin, also a statesman, fell into imperial disfavor, was made drunk and entombed under a bank of snow. Tu Fu admired his own admirable verse so much that he recommended it for malarial fever. Fang Shu Shao, knowing his time had come, got into his coffin and wrote: "My pen and ink shall go with me inside my funeral hearse, so that if I've leisure 'over there' I may soothe myself with verse...
Your head grows bald but not your chin...
Invitation to a Haymaker. At 40, Leo Ernest Durocher is the most talked-about and most unloved man in baseball. From heavy-lidded eyes he stares a perpetual challenge to the world. He fears no man. His square chin juts an open invitation for somebody to hit it-and about half of baseball's players and umpires, at one time or another, have resolved to do just that thing some...
Sometimes one of his Dodgers gets too deep in debate with an umpire, and that calls for Technique No. 3. The trick is to take over the fight. He thrusts out his chin, wags a threatening finger under the ump's nose, and as a final insult kicks sand on the umpire's shoes. Says Durocher: "Sure, I get bounced but my player stays...
There was considerable doubt among Fred's superiors that he was worth the money. He spent most of his time with an inkwell on his chin, a pencil on his nose, and four or five books flying from hand to hand. When not so occupied, he would shatter the institution's leathern hush by bawling: "Say, did you hear about the man who dreamed he was eating Shredded Wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone...