Chewing the Fat

Bowl Season


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...in which Rex and Paul chew the fat about feeling the pressure to get home from church in time to see the Cowboys game, difficulties staying up till midnight on New Year's Eve, Rex's adventures doing press relations at the Cotton Bowl, his best Christmas stocking gift ever, the old Alps Restaurant, the old Baker Hotel in Dallas, former LSU coach Charlie McClendon and Rex's boyhood refusal to shake his hand, Rex's coverage of other bowl games, freezing at the Liberty Bowl, Paul's viewing of the second Ali-Frazier fight while AWOL from the Navy, Pete Fountain in New Orleans, legendary Forrest City sportswriter Raoul Carlisle at the Kentucky Derby with Red Smith, how Lou Holtz messed up E.J. Junior's name, Rex's near-death experience swallowing a bay leaf at a restaurant in the French Quarter, the need to go to Northeast Arkansas while the leaves are off the trees, George's Fish Market in Marvell, and getting caviar and tamales in Helena.
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Chewing the FatBy Central Arkansas Library System

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