October 3rd Events

[RICHARD ROMEO]

just for the heck of it:

though Delillo doesn't mention it in Underworld, Red Barber, who covered 
the Oct 3 game for the Dodgers, Mason-like to Russ Hodges Dixon-like, had 
a beautiful little reaction to that Thompson homer:  He said in effect 
(my words):  "It's all perspective, all perspective, there's lots a 
families tonight who've just lost a son in Korea, and don't care that 
much about the results of an everyday ballgame."

three other obs:

Metalboy--what the hell's a chubby and where can I buy one?

not fair one gets to hear Delillo speak, see Lotion, and get drunk in 
that capital of the great satan with other paranoid-pinko sickos all in 
the same day.  I feel like the Skipper who wasn't invited to Mr Howell's 
party...to quote that Aussie band:  "Have A Drink on Me"

third.   a little stargazer's ditty:

Copernicus in Utica
thought the world round.

they locked'em in Attica
charged him with sciatica,

Now, he never leaves the ground.

"nothing real is threatened,
nothing unreal exists"

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org