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...becomes eligible for parole in 15 years). Fromme is the first person ever to be convicted under the law, enacted after the assassination of John Kennedy, providing for a prison sentence up to life for an attempted murder of a President. Recalled MacBride afterward: "That gal didn't bat an eye when I pronounced judgment." On her way out of the courtroom, however, Squeaky broke into screams that could be heard long after the doors had shut behind her. Because of the Manson family's bloody record, the judge was placed under protection for an indefinite time...
...Valuable Player in 1959 when he led the Chicago White Sox to their first league championship in 40 years; of skin cancer; in Baltimore. With the White Sox from 1950, "Nellie" Fox made his reputation as a player who liked to hit with an old-fashioned milk-bottle-shaped bat, chew a giant wad of tobacco, and hang a red bandana from the hip pocket of his uniform. Nicknamed "Mighty Mite," the diminutive Fox led the American League in most seasons (twelve) with 600 or more at-bats, and played in 13 All-Star games...
...Strangelove. Dr. Strangelove is the definitive Cold War satire, perhaps the blackest of apocalyptic humor. It is one of those films, and there are few others, where every line seems just right. And quotable. "You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company for that," Col. "Bat" Guano tells Mandrake as he shoots open a soda machine in order to get enough change to call the W hite House. General Ripper's discussion of Purity of Essence ranks with the great madnesses of all time. George C. Scott's portrayal of Buck Turgidson is far better than...
...himself, Rock Star Elton John. All dandied up in a sequined white Dodger uniform (designed by Cher's own dressmaker, Bob Mackie), Elton had come to play a pair of concerts at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. In real life, of course, Elton has never swung a baseball bat in anger. "What I have played is a game called rounders," said the bespectacled singer. "It's the English equivalent of baseball and not nearly as violent. None of that sliding into bases and trying to get the guy with your cleats." With 110,000 tickets sold...
...began when the Detroit Tigers drafted Wolff in June of his junior year, even though in two seasons at Harvard he hadn't earned a varsity letter, and had only been at bat a total of six times...