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...division singles, Navy's Bailey Taff had to sail through a Crimson sea to pull out a championship. He defeated Bob Horne, 6-2, 6-4, in the semi-finals, and then came from way behind to nip Mike Terner in the finals, 7-5, 1-6, 7-6. Terner fought back from a 4-1 deficit in the final tiebreaker, only to lose the final point on a clutch overhead smash by the Midshipman...
...Dave Bailey, who has lived in Cambridge all his life, not everything is rosy for natives. "Harvard and MIT are buying up the whole city. In 30 years, at the rate it's going, Cambridge will be exclusively a university town...
...Bailey says, Cambridge is still a good home. "The people here aren't transients, like in Boston. You have foundations--roots--and the neighborhoods get built...
Last June in St. Louis, well-organized conservatives at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention elected a stem-winding preacher named Bailey Smith, 41, as president of the nation's biggest Protestant group (13.4 million members). Smith, who trained at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a pastor at the First Southern Baptist Church in Del City, Okla., managed to keep a low profile until a big August political rally in Dallas, organized by the rising Protestant right. Reporters flocked to a press conference where Ronald Reagan was holding forth in favor of biblical creationism...
Waits also spent a good portion of 1979 holed up in a Paris loft, collaborating with artist Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams) on a book of portraits of American heroes, to which Waits has contributed the text. "You know, people like Marlene Dietrich, Mohammad Ali, Meyer Lansky, Pearl Bailey, Jimmy Durante, Adam Clayton Powell...