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...that often uses a shovel instead of a rapier, a backslap instead of a boot, Mauldin, 39, wields the hottest editorial brush in the U.S. Full of caustic and rebellious passions, he boils over onto his drawing board with the scalding effect of a well-aimed spit of lava. "You've got to be a misanthrope in this business," says Mauldin. "A real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends, and I'll jump. If I see a stuffed shirt, I want to punch it." Mauldin's professional credo...
...habitual front runner-spurted boldly into the lead. Through the backstretch, Panamanian Jockey Braulio Baeza kept Sherluck comfortably second, just off Globemaster's slow pace. For the favored Carry Back, "there was no running room anywhere," said his jockey, Johnny Sellers. "When I called on him, he just spit the bit out." In the stretch, Sherluck overhauled Globemaster to win by 2¼ lengths and pay $132.10 for a $2 ticket. Fifteen lengths behind, Carry Back was a dismal seventh...
...This is not a book This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty...what you will...
Fear & Confidence. The Houston gossipists' spit-spat has been building ever since Roberts abruptly announced 20 months ago that after 23 years on the Press he was quitting to accept a better offer from the Post Press Editor George Carmack frantically placed long-distance calls for a replacement. When none appeared, he took a slow look around his own city room, finally tapped energetic Maxine, mother of two, who had worked for Roberts since 1956 and knew all of her old boss's news sources. "I was petrified." says Maxine. "I couldn't eat. I couldn...
...loans and gifts totaling $855,000. The handsomest offer, $500,000, came from St. Louis-born Heiress Ellen Steinberg, a social worker in Manhattan, who perhaps made the best point of all. "Perhaps it is not the children who are the real sufferers," she said. "Those who jeered and spit are the ones in shackles...