Word: cards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporting spot news and old frontier tales alike from Tuesday to Friday and protecting his favorites on Saturday, when he took over as night city editor. One favorite, says the soft-spoken Magnuson, "came out of Deadwood, S. Dak., where Wild Bill Hickok was shot to death in a card game." During Magnuson's time, the town "got itself a new, eager-beaver district attorney who closed down all the local brothels. That sent Deadwood into a rage, particularly the mothers, who were grateful to the bawds for keeping troops from a nearby Air Force base 'away...
...spurred one of the greatest manhunts in California's history. The first came when a National Audubon Society group, on an outing in the Santa Cruz mountains some 40 miles from the Livermore quarry, stumbled upon notebooks, clothing and shoes belonging to the Chowchilla students, and an ID card owned by the children's bus driver...
...decided not to tamper with the Games. Canada's objections had come far too late for the I.O.C. to consider a change of venue for the Games. Declared Killanin: "It would appear that we've done everything possible to uphold our principles." The I.O.C.'s trump card, he added, was its moral stand. Nonetheless, the Canadians refused to budge...
Died. Charles Ritz, 84, trim, soldierly chairman of the original Ritz Hotel on Paris' Place Vendome; in Paris. "Personal attention to the guest is everything," said Ritz, son of the hotel's founder. "I myself, to be friendly, send each guest a bottle of champagne and my card when he checks in." Fly-fishing was his avocation, and he spent much of his time angling in the streams of the world. His 1959 book A Fly Fisher's Life boasted an introduction by his friend and frequent customer Ernest Hemingway...
...NAME NEIL SIMON has long been a successful drawing card for Broadway theaters. And though his Broadway hits have never been renowned for their depth of characterization or for the dramatic thrust of their plots, Simon's breezy style and witty one-liners have kept audiences entertained and coming back for more. But now New Yorker Simon has relocated--he has gone west, to Hollywood, where he has written his first original screenplay, Murder by Death, an affectionate spoof of popular detective fiction, and something of a change from the more urbane, comedy of manners subject material of his earlier...