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...Saturday Evening Post," Ramparts Editor Warren Hinckle III quipped at a meeting of magazine editors in Manhattan last week. Later the 30-year-old editor, who manages to look at once rakish and boyish, appeared in a red shirt, Hush Puppies and a tattered eye patch,* to tell reporters in Ramparts' offices in the Fisherman's Wharf area of San Francisco: "The magazine is bankrupt; the phones are out; there's no booze in the closet; we're dead...
While coach Bob Harrison, bitterly disappointed, complained about a number of questionable officiating calls, Gustavson stared hard at the patch of floor between his knees. A visitor to the locker room tried to console him: "Don't worry, Gus, at least we'll be ready for the Ivy League...
...poorly. Black ministers preached as often as they could gather a crowd and they preached well, well by black standards I mean here, or else the people looked for a minister who could preach. Styron's Turner could not have gathered a following large enough to raid a watermelon patch...
...else, and while they remember an occasional hurt, such as Frank's infidelity, they can scarcely recall a joy. Yet they are appalled that their son Richy (Bobby Alto) is breaking up with his wife Joan (Candy Azzara) after only six years of marriage. The elders try to patch things up. But incompatibility and compatibility are equally obscure. Richy's and Joan's reasons for divorcing are as fathomless as Frank's and Bea's for staying married. It is all part of the mysterious human comedy, enriched by the quietly commanding achievement of Richard...
...addition to Margin, the panel includes Sterling Patch, M.D., a congenital bureaucrat and head of the Bureau of Infantile Resources Potential, and Bert Rubble, director of a think tank called CEFALOPOD (Center for Attrition, Logistics, Policing and Deterrence). Rubble is by far the most amusing and terrifying character. A high-voltage action-intellectual wired into the highest power sources, he has written a book entitled Think Clear or Die. He wants to apply systems analysis and game theory to the national diaper rash; yet he has the touch of a hip nightclub comic: "I hate to break the news...