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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* David McCallum, Ossie Davis and George Grizzard star in Teacher, Teacher, an original drama by Allan Sloane, about the struggle to teach a mentally retarded teen-ager played by Billy Schulman...
Those competing will be William Draper, Allan Watson, Jay O'Rear, Larry Carter. They will be competing with ten other top Eastern skiers and 15 members of the U.S. National Ski Team...
Alpine skiing includes all slalom events. per, Allan Watson, Jay O'Rear, and Larry Nordic skiing includes such events as the jump and cross country runs...
...itinerant cooper from the Glasgow slums, young Allan came to Chicago in 1842 as a fugitive, escaping the consequences of his past as a radical agitator. The time and the place could not have been more propitious for a man with an extravagant taste for self-righteousness and the sort of brawn developed by swinging a ten-pound cooper's hammer. Mid-19th century Chicago was beginning America's painful, often bloody transition from frontier to urban society. Law enforcement was faltering between mere inefficiency and dedicated corruption. Into the power vacuum stepped the indefatigable, incorruptible Pinkerton, self...
...Homestead steel strike in 1892 (eight years after Allan's death) that finally turned the word Pinkerton into a hated synonym for union-breaking muscle; for during that strike, Winchester-toting agents were imported as "watchmen." As late as the 1930s, Pinkertons were finding congenial work playing labor spies on behalf of management. For today's Pinkerton heirs, however, the intoxicating old self-righteousness is gone. Robert II, the fourth generation of detective Pinkertons, who would have preferred to remain a Wall Street broker, is now chairman of the board. Seventy branch offices are tamely staffed with...