For the first time since 1920, a Republican has won the seat of a district that covers parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Of course, Political Man weighed in on the matter as he passed the floating book shop, excoriating the traitorous Jews and Italians who voted against Weprin, an Orthodox Jew, and the right wing Christians who kept calling his home telling him to "vote with Jesus." On his way back he startled an elderly couple perusing the books, complaining that Republicans were out to take everything away from them. I assured the two the guy is harmless.
Was the result an omen of what is to come in next year's national election? We'll see. In the least it may have given professional politician and New York Senator Chuck Schumer agita, and that's a good thing. Good luck to Representative Bob Turner, who may not be in office long, as the area is scheduled for redistricting.
Also on the political front: Tapes were released of an interview Jackie Kennedy did four months after the assassination of her husband. It is rife with tidbits gossip columnists would kill for. They are personal, not political in nature, eye-opening in that she was always a paragon of decorum publically. To no one's surprise, she dubbed French president Charles DeGaulle an "egomaniac." She called Indira Gandhi "a real prune, a bitter kind of pushy, horrible woman." There have always been rumors of Martin Luther King's sexual dalliances, but it was shocking to hear Jackie call him a "phony" and "a terrible man." She also had choice words about Jack LaLane, Ladybird Johnson and Adlai Stevenson. She did not mention JFK's philandering.
RIP Sam DeLuca, 75, graduate of Lafayette High School, 1953, and twelve-year pro football offensive guard. He played in Canada, the AFL and in the NFL after the merger. He was a New York Jet, on injured reserve, the year the team won the Super Bowl. He later worked as the color man on their radio broadcasts and also on regional TV network games. At Lafayette he was a classmate of Sandy Koufax and Blackie Fasano, who is mentioned in my second novel, Adjustments. Oddly, I don't remember if I mentioned DeLuca. It would have been brief.
Thanks to Bob Rubenstein, who made his final payment to me for the editing I did on his second novel, The White Bridge. He is anxiously awaiting word on it from All Things That Matter Press. He is in too much of a hurry. I would have liked to have taken another look at it before submission.
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