John O'Hara kept his appointment in Samarra Saturday at the age of 65, and even though I am aware that the Black Hawks are romping toward a Stanley Cup triumph and the Cubs are opening at home tomorrow and the world's greatest golfers are concluding an epic struggle over Augusta National's picturesque acres, I'm going to devote this column to John O'Hara because I think I owe it to him.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.

Surely then whatever is ungenerated and in being must be eternal, and whatever is indestructible and in being must equally be so.

I've structured the deal to limit the amount of money we can lose.