Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AUTUMN of 1925, two Harvard professors were weekend guests together at the Connecticut home of a colleague. One was Lawrence Joseph Henderson, a professor of Biological Chemistry of whom George C. Homans and Orville T. Bailey, two former fellows who chronicled the Society's history, wrote. "[His] beard was red but his polities were vigorously conservative. His method in discussion [was] feebly imitated by the pike-driver." Today Homans is a professor of Sociology here...
...Italian-born circus clown credited with developing the perilous, modern "human cannonball" act in 1922; in Tampa. Zacchini broke his right leg the first time he used a spring-powered cannon to hurl him 20 ft When he came to the U.S. to join the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey circus in 1930, he had already designed compressed-air cannons that could send him or one of his six brothers flying 100 ft through the air, although by the time he stopped performing the stunt in 1934 he had suffered four other leg fractures...
...union and its supporters are also still trying to persuade pilots and passengers that air travel is no longer safe. Warned Lawyer F. Lee Bailey, one of the founders of the air controllers' union and a pilot himself: "Air commerce is not a giant sandbox in which PATCO and the Government ought to be playing war games...
Midway through his second two-year term, he returned to A.J. Fletcher's WRAL. "The old man," says Bailey, "thought the sun rose and set right behind Jesse's left ear." WRAL, that hymn-and-hog-price 250-watter, was now Capitol Broadcasting, an empire embracing the radio outlet, Raleigh's first TV station and a hookup of about 70 rural stations called the Tobacco Radio Network. Fletcher piled three executive titles on Helms and let him do the station's editorials...
...lies on a coffee table. There are autographed portraits: President Reagan, Spiro Agnew, J. Edgar Hoover. Helms has collected dozens of figurines of elephants, but not as a hobby; most were foisted on him by friends. He has no hobbies. When he is in Raleigh, Helms never misses Pou Bailey's every-other-Thursday-night poker fest, a 35-year-old ritual. Steaks or jambalaya are served, the joshing among old friends is ceaseless, and wagers seldom