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Four decades ago, they worked their magic in the Negro Baseball Leagues, playing their own game while white men ruled the sport. Tonight they were back together again in Ashland, Ky. (pop. 29,000), for the third annual reunion of the Negro Leagues. It was the first time that some of them had seen one another since the old days, and they had a lot of catching up to do. The splendid second baseman Piper Davis fired a ball across the lot, popping it in a mitt loud enough to wake the entire motel. Davis, who managed Willie Mays when...
...Black Yankees in the '30s. Greenup feted Thomas with an 80th birthday party and invited a group of old-timers from the black leagues. Twelve of them came, and before the party was over, they vowed to do it again the next year. With help from organizers in Ashland, the event doubled in size the second time around, and this year, thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Schlitz Brewing Co., 52 veterans turned...
...Chevron brand, Phillips Petroleum and Marathon Oil have all announced that they are cutting by $1 per bbl. the amount they will pay for certain grades of domestically produced crude. Atlantic Richfield has reduced purchases from Nigeria by 60,000 bbl. a day, and industry experts say that Ashland Oil has indefinitely suspended purchases of some 90,000 bbl. a day of crude from Mexico, along with another 17,000 bbl. daily from the African country of Cameroon. In the past two weeks, Mexico, Ecuador and Egypt have cut their crude-oil prices between...
...Beef Stew" and pleas for companionship from "caring" bachelors who love long walks and Mantovani. Under the headline is a fat, two-column come-on from the Bear Creek Corp. In Medford, Ore. In the country round Medford, it declares, "trees outnumber people." The place is "15 minutes from Ashland (home of the summer Shakespearean Festival) in the valley of the Rogue River, beloved by demented steelhead and salmon anglers. Excellent skiing, hiking, boating and swimming at your back door." The Bear Creek people need someone to wax poetic in prose about things they sell. Writers are invited to send...
When LaDuke was five, she and her mother and her younger brother moved to Ashland, Ore., where she stayed until she left for college at age 17. "MIT had been sending me all this information on opportunities open to Indian engineers and I thought if MIT wants me maybe somebody else does. Also I had just seen Love Story, and that had made an impression on me," she says. "I wanted to get out of Ashland and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League...