O. box in Hastings-on-Hudson how clever and coy he had been to find a place-name that was itself, with the mere insertion of an apostrophe, a sentence, and a faintly lascivious one, too.

NEWYORKER: The King of Sentences

Just one year after his 1952 fair debut, he underwent cosmetic surgery to correct a hooked nose and "a lascivious wink" that gave him a menacing appearance, according to "The Great State Fair of Texas An Illustrated History, " written by Nancy Wiley, the fair's former head of public relations, and published in 1985 by Taylor Publishing Co.

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