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...trend started last month when sister stations KGO-TV in San Francisco and KABC-TV in Los Angeles hired former California Chief Justice Rose Bird to do twice-weekly commentaries for their evening newscasts. Bird, who was voted off the bench in 1986, made a shaky debut when she delivered a commentary in rhyme on the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. KGO then added former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, out of office just two months, as an occasional analyst. Her first topic: the Bay City's budget deficit, and why it is not her fault...
...radio, for example, which could not show the red-caped hero in full flight, an imaginative scriptwriter dreamed up the deathless lines: "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Because radio shows had to be performed by real people, and because Actor Bud Collyer demanded a vacation, the writers invented the Kryptonite meteorite. For two weeks, all that was heard of Superman was muffled moaning from a closet, until Collyer returned...
With 10 yards left, Bird took his final breath, put his head down and drove for the wall. Timing his strokes right, he lunged for the wall...
...deafening crowd noise and electronic scoreboard told the whole story--Bird was Eastern champion in the 200 butterfly, touching .13 of a second ahead of Rafferty and .18 seconds before Harvey...
...captain's retirement had begun, except for one last thing. Minutes after his final swim, Bird received the Hal Ulen award, which goes to the senior scoring the most Eastern points in his four years. The butterfly title put him over...