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...success of the Gurney for Senate campaign depends in large measure upon 'early' financing. Please send us your maximum contribution, today!" This appeal in a 1967 flyer put out for Congressman Edward John Gurney helped him to that success, for he won election in 1968 as the first Republican Senator from Florida since Reconstruction days. But early and maximum fund raising also became a way of life for Gurney's political associates. Three have already served time for crimes arising from the practice, and it finally landed Gurney himself, along with another set of cronies...
...lines are as carefully strung together as if the whole purpose of the script had been to construct the perfect dialogue from long-retired phrases and adolescent sexual puns. Oscar's favorite line, as he tries to figure out how much the girl is really worth, is the standard flyer: "Didn't her brother leave her something?" In classic versions of the "fortune" plot an aristocrat's title was responsible for all that loot. But this is a painstakingly American comedy; it turns out that Freddy's mother has left her a fortune in Quintessa Sanitary Napkins...
Mosley worked hard at projecting the heroic image of himself. As the son of a wealthy Midlands family, he never lacked sumptuous props or staging. The fact that he was also a good-looking 6 ft. 2 in. did not hurt either. During World War I, he was a flyer and an infantry officer. He was a skillful amateur boxer, and later became a member of Britain's fencing team. Even as a Socialist and disillusioned survivor of the first World War's unchivalrous slaughter, Mosley never lost his dash. His political enemies called him the Playboy...
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Having spotted free-swinging Philadelphia a three-game lead in their best-of-seven series, the Islanders, led by diminutive Goalie Glenn ("Chico") Resch, stalled the Flyers' attack and turned the series around. By winning three straight, they forced a decisive seventh game last week. But there the Islanders' improbable success story came to an abrupt end. The Philadelphia team, which began the final game with the good-luck singing of Kate Smith (the Flyers have a record of 43-3-1 after her performances of God Bless America before home games), protected its league championship with...