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...shoulders, for instance. Nor is the work well served by Morton Gould's empty variations on the Jerome Kern song. But when I'm Old Fashioned takes itself lightly, which is often enough, it becomes the fantasy of every man who has ever put on a dinner jacket and asked a woman to dance...
...denim jacket over his pinstripe suit and tie, John Glenn Jr. sat behind the controls of his ivory and red, twin-engine Beechcraft, ready to take off for a regular weekend of campaigning. It was 7 o'clock on a recent Friday morning, and today the candidate would head for Ohio, then loop all the way back to the northern tip of Maine. Glenn does not like to start his days so early. He is a man of endless patience, but overscheduling Glenn, aides know well, is one of the very few things that cause his temper to blow...
...spite of his fame and enormous exposure, Glenn at 61 is a shy, rather old-fashioned man. In the office he never removes his jacket or loosens his tie. He seems austere, but he is not a scold and does not preach to anyone. When a member of his staff first applied for a job, he told Glenn directly that he was a homosexual. Impressed by his candor, Glenn considered the matter for a couple of days, then hired him. He resists all efforts to let himself be repackaged. Aides once suggested Glenn get a speech coach, and he curtly...
...schools and organizing his own food-rationing scheme. He has even used captured Soviet trucks to establish daily bus service in the valley. Massoud is also prudent enough to avoid needless risks. He travels with four gun-wielding bodyguards and packs a 9-mm automatic under his jacket. In order to elude the KhAD, he sleeps in a different house each night...
...Concerto. And he played it straight, until the very end. Then, just before heading offstage for a congratulatory hug from his longtime squeeze, Susan Anton, 32, he reverted to the depths of British music hall humor. Turning his back to the audience, Moore impishly flipped the tails of his jacket in the air as he bade Carnegie Hall adieu...