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...second platoon that made the difference in a sloppy second half, replacing Bok's charges after a four-minute scoreless spell in the opening moments. Lanky University Consultant Jim Bailey (Bok: "He really is a consultant, you know, not a ringer") ferociously racked the boards, prompting scrappy forward Lori Christensen to exhort, "Box those turkeys...

Author: By Mark D. Director and Jonathan J. Ledecky, S | Title: Bok's Deadly Set-Shot Sparks Jocks To 68-41 Win Over 'Cliffe Hoopsters | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...responsible for instituting the anti-dunk rule in the first place. But size is not quintessential. Alabama's Kent Looney, a 5-ft. 9-in., 141-lb. guard, went over a 7-ft. opponent to stuff a rebound. The country's top dunker is Rutgers Center James Bailey, who has slammed down an incredible 85 jams this year. For Bailey, a lay-up is a lapse of imagination. Aside from individual practitioners of the dunking art, there are teams who make the stuff a group effort. The University of Louisville's official nickname is the Cardinals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Year of the Superstuffers | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...worst thing I ever did was win an election, says William H. Bailey, 40, the first black ever elected to the Rhode Island state legislature from the ghetto district of south Providence. Until his election last November, Bailey was riding high as the prosperous owner of four apartment buildings. Now his long criminal record has been revealed, and he faces the prospect of serving up to four years in a Michigan prison for larceny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Bill Bailey's Rhode Island Blues | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Nobody challenged Bailey's victory in the Democratic primary last September, but there were charges of voting fraud in other areas, so Rhode Island Attorney General Julius Michaelson convened a grand jury to investigate. While the jury was sniffing around, an anonymous tipster called the state police and told them that Bailey had an arrest record. State Police Captain Edward Pare found that Bailey had pleaded guilty in 1962 to shoplifting suits from a store in Cheltenham, Pa. He had paid a $100 fine and spent 60 days in jail. Pare also found that Bailey had been arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Bill Bailey's Rhode Island Blues | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...turntable while the folks downstairs are listening to the same song on their clock radio. ARS came into being when a group of session musicians got together after years of playing other people's music and decided to make a glad noise of their own. Barry Bailey plays lead guitar; the Rhythm in the title is floor-shakingly taken care of by J.R. Cobb, Paul Goddard and Robert Nix on rhythm guitar, bass and drums, respectively. Their vocals have Dean Daughty leading. His voice has the languor of kudzu growing down from the trees in the warmer climes--he neocroons...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Loud, Hot 'Lanta Honky-Tonk | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

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