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...real estate executive who became a Braves owner in 1943, Perini gave a sense of insecurity to sports fans everywhere when he led his money-losing team from their home of 77 years to pastures he hoped would be more profitable. (They were not.) Boston papers dubbed him the "Benedict Arnold of Baseball," but his strategy was subsequently emulated by financially pressed teams in both leagues...
...Irving got the Phelan manuscript. Noah Dietrich began working on a book about Hughes in Los Angeles during 1969. Jim Phelan, his collaborator, is a widely experienced newspaperman and investigative reporter who has written five magazine articles on Hughes. Says Dietrich: "Phelan would come up to my house in Benedict Canyon and I would dictate to his tape recorder. One hundred hours of tapes. Then he digested this and wrote down a lot of questions, and I dictated a whole batch of memos to my secretary...
...draw the line. I'd go back to George Washington who was asked to give up the information on the disastrous St. Clair expedition into Indian territory..." Unfortunately, in the hard game of politics, history must take second place to necessity: McCloskey had to sell his favorite Benedict Arnold portrait to gain needed campaign funds...
...form attempts to "categorize" people by its specific questions, Benedict asserted. "The old C.O. form, while we are not completely happy with it, allows people to explain what they believe," he said...
...application is an attempt to eliminate or reduce requests for C.O. classifications, Benedict said...