Word: aarons
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...Most of us feel like comparative strangers to one another," repeats Robert Aaron in the very first of the alumni biographies that comprise the '46er's mammoth 1600 page class record. "It would have been nice to have had it otherwise...
Mississippi blacks, on the other hand, had no trouble finding an explanation for the murder. A voter-registration drive aided by young whites from the North had recently started, and local resentments were aroused. Said state N.A.A.C.P. President Aaron Henry: "Apparently they were out to kill a black, any black." In the wake of the killing, angry crowds of Negroes roamed the town, occasionally hurling stones at windows and passing cars. Heavily armed, nervous police patrolled the streets and imposed a one-night curfew...
Souvenir Worth Keeping. That evening, though, really belonged to the livelier old bones of Atlanta's Henry Louis Aaron. In the first inning, he lined Giant Pitcher Gaylord Perry's first pitch off the right centerfield fence for a stand-up double. Next time up, when Perry tried to jam him with a high inside fastball, Hammerin' Hank hit a 350-ft. drive that sailed over the leftfield wall and caromed back onto the playing field. After retrieving the ball, Third Base Umpire Paul Pryor was presented with a card that read: "I caught Hank Aaron...
...Aaron's 600th stirred speculation that either he or Mays might break Ruth's once seemingly unassailable lifetime record of 714 home runs. Mays, whose five homers so far this season give him a total of 633, has at best only an outside chance. Though Willie feels he has five more seasons left in him, he is fighting not only time but the wicked left-to-right winds that plague righthanded power hitters in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Aaron is three years younger than Mays (he turned 37 in February) and also has the advantage...
This work's author, Aaron Latham, has smartly limited his territory-to Fitzgerald's various stints in Hollywood as a screenwriter. The novelist went to the movie capital several times during the last downhill decade of his life, partly to raise money for Zelda's sanitarium expenses, partly to save himself as a writer. What biographer Latham has done-and it is surprising that no one ever did it before-is go to Los Angeles and dig out the screenplays Fitzgerald wrote. almost none of which appeared on film in anything like their original form...