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...team, whose squad led the majors in 4-Fs with 18, never faltered. Going into the final day of the season, the Browns were still last in the league in attendance, but tied with the Yankees for first place. By the end of the day, they had clinched the flag with a winning per centage of .578, a new low in American League history...
...flourish-particularly in a specialized union of pseudo scholarship and science fiction that could be called fiction science. Like astrology or its medieval cousin alchemy, fiction science tries to explain the unknown through a system of symbolic beliefs-a kind of mythology purportedly based on scientific reason. Like religion, FS's principal aim is to explain the mysterious origin of life on earth. In that sense, the Arthur C. Clarke of Childhood's End and 2001 is a fiction scientist...
Mass UFOria. Bookstore browsers can testify that the FS imagination has been working overtime. Currently the best-read fiction science (more than 30 million paperback copies sold) is Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods? and its sequels. Von Däniken, a former Swiss hotelman and convicted embezzler with no formal scientific training, professes the notion that the species Homo sapiens was created when astronauts from outer space descended to earth about 10,000 years ago and copulated with apes. It was a kind of one-night stand. According to the author, the satiated aliens...
...Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, I'm in Love With Vienna, I've Told Ev'ry Little Star, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan, I Wanna Be Loved By You, and I'm Just Wild About Harry. The Fs have it, but don't forget Sophisticated Lady, Ain 't Misbehavin', and Me and My Shadow...
Lucky Shots. As his confessions reveal, Reisman was never quite comfortable on the tournament circuit. The lifelong con man preferred to hustle-to persuade naïfs that he was past his prime, that in a $100 game he could no longer give away 15 points and still win. Reisman's professional reputation stopped growing years ago, but in the gamblers' world he remains a legend-the equal of Minnesota Fats and Bobby Riggs...