Word: bobo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernheimer never knows where his next piece will come from--he says he can find anything a customer wants. He sells everything from a wooden Upper Volta Bobo ladel for $240 to an 18th century Americana rocking horse for $450. In typical disorder, one case holds both a small Archaic Sassanian plate for $750 and an 18th century enamel pill...
...last .400 hitter. Pitcher Cy Young's record of 511 victories has held for two generations. This permanence extends to the game's oddballs, men like Casey Stengel, who once tipped his hat to the crowd and released a bird that was nesting in his hair; Bobo Holloman, who pitched only one complete game in the majors-and that one a no-hitter. There are players whose names alone could render them immortal: Eli Grba, Fenton Mole, Eppa Rixey, Wally Pipp, Napoleon Lajoie. All these men, the immortals and the "flakes," exist like the game beyond the erosions...
...Manhattan Bank; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. A Yale dropout, Rockefeller was an oilfield roustabout and Army infantryman before settling down after World War II to tend to his share of the family fortunes-and to New York cafe society. When his first marriage to former Showgirl Barbara ("Bobo") Sears went awry in the early '50s, he left New York for the Arkansas hills, built a ranch and gradually became the state's biggest booster and leading Republican organizer. Adopting western boots and a straw hat as his trademark, Rockefeller brushed aside charges that...
Married. Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 22, only son of former Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller and his first wife Barbara ("Bobo") Sears; and Deborah Cluett Sage, 20, blonde London socialite; both for the first time; in an Episcopal ceremony in Williamsburg...
...Folle's portrayal of Felicity Trollop Pardon or Mary Alice's impish Stephanie Virtue Secret-rose Diop, one can hardly forget that, without the stage presence of these strong personalities, the characters would be entirely forgettable-perhaps, even interchangeable. Gustave Johnson (as Deodatus Village) and Catherine Sella (as Adelaide Bobo) lack the requisite intensity and control to attain a similar mastery over their roles...