Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his off-the-record chat with State Representative Steve Dolley one day last week, Reporter Paul Crooke of North Carolina's daily Gastonia Gazette (circ. 20,491) tossed a memo on the crowded desk of Managing Editor Bob Hallman. Gist of the memo: Dolley, a onetime Gazette staffer, was only pleasing officials of nearby Bessemer City when he introduced a bill to reorganize their courts, had "no desire that the bill pass," was convinced that "it has no chance whatever"-and wanted the Gazette to kill any stories about it. Somehow, in the deadline shuffle, the memo...
...boats have little chance. Up and down, 6-ft., turbulent swells bounced the cruiser. It capsized. Father Frank Rich was heard to scream: "Here we go." Those were his last words. Del Rich pulled his wife from under the boat, and they clawed to shore, watching father and mother bob downstream. Exhausted and distraught, they prayed. Then they limped upstream over sharp limestone, looking for help. "Someone will come," said Penney. "We were not saved from the water to die on the shore...
...puny .243 v. .266 at the same time last year, when they led the league by 6½ games. The Bronx Bombers had been shut out five times in the first six weeks of 1959. The pitching was poor too. Last week Yankee Aces Whitey Ford and Bob Turley were both knocked out of the box in the first inning. Muttered Manager Casey Stengel: "Those pitchers of ours will have to do a little better or we won't get to see them around here much longer...
Disk Jockey Bob Bandy of station WAPL, in Appleton, Wis., has always believed in direct action. In 1955 he walked through the streets in red underwear because the Braves lost the pennant. In 1958 he sat for 43 days atop the Hotel Balliet to promote a community youth center. Gaudy accomplishments, indeed -but would Bandy be ready when the really big challenge came...
This, thought Bob, was not the sum that had been Bandied about. So that noon, on his introductory show, he waited until the other station people had left, then locked one door, jammed a desk and filing cabinet against the other. On his turntable he placed a song called Only the Shadow Knows, which he had been warned was loathed by President Dorsey. For eight hours well-barricaded Disk Jockey Bandy played Only the Shadow Knows, interrupting it occasionally to comment heatedly on how he had been had. Citizens of Davenport smuggled in hamburgers and soft drinks...