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...gimme, gimme, gimme and threat, threat, threat. I'm getting sick and tired of it," complained Oakland Athletics Owner Charles Finley, who has been devoting much of his energy lately to a contract hassle with Pitcher Vida Blue. Other owners reflected the same hard line. Declared Beer Baron Gussie Busch, owner of the St. Louis...
Last week marked the end of the career of Wooden's only rival in the pantheon of college basketball coaches, Adolph Frederick Rupp. After 42 years as coach at the University of Kentucky, the rambunctious Rupp-often called "The Baron" and sometimes "Old Rupp and Ready"-finally and reluctantly capitulated to age. He passed the university's mandatory retirement age of 70 this past season, and a statewide campaign by well-wishers failed to have the rule waived. Largely because of his long tenure at Kentucky, Rupp's teams have won more games (879) than Wooden...
...this point Christine attempted a legal ploy that would have made any robber baron proud. As part of her first loan, she had agreed to have the bank set up an inviolable and irrevocable trust fund for her, which would receive the bulk of her inheritance. Her lawyers therefore argued that her creditors, who all knew about the trust, could not collect from any of the funds...
...Harvard Education Relevant Any More?" Nelson Katz (Baron Barracuda in the old Diver Dan series) will address the question and free organic cookies will be served. Lecture Hall, Great Eastern Corp., 49 River St., Cambridge. 4, March 30 and 31. Free...
Though the lyrics sung are usually clear and refined, some of the Falloon's songs do deteriorate into obscurity and triteness. Baron's Daughter, the faltering encore performed Friday night, has lines like. "Casting about the locker rooms-Hoping for baby eagles in the doom. All the time you're on fire-knowing what you desire," whose meaning is barely perceptible. The groups new, untitled number also had some ridiculously superfluous lyrics like. "I was kneeling on my knees." Many times, however, the music does hold one's attention in spite of the cryptic phrasing...