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...steel town, with a population of just 19,057 in a county with an unemployment rate of 13%, Reyers has grown to become one of the largest independent shoe stores in the U.S. It draws 1,000 to 3,000 customers a day, some coming from Pittsburgh and Cleveland, 75 miles away. This year, its 99th, it will record annual sales of $6 million to $8 million (vs. $355,000 for the average shoe retailer...
...unanimous vote of House Republicans for the budget reductions and tax cuts in August 1981. Will the Republican mayors, and there are many of them (35 percent of the cities with a population of more than 30,000 have Republican mayors), stand up in 1985? Certainly George Voinovich of Cleveland and Richard Berkley of Kansas City, two of the nation's leading Republican mayors, will continue to fight for these programs...
...Defensive back Lawrence Johnson was traded to the Buffalo Bills by the Cleveland Browns in exchange for an undisclosed 1985 draft choice...
...From Cleveland this June, he flimflammed red-bearded, righthanded Pitcher Rick Sutcliffe, 4-5 with the Indians to that point, 16-1 with the Cubs since then. "They've scored a lot of runs for me, and they were in first when I got here," Sutcliffe said humbly after clinching the half-pennant with his 14th straight victory. The new Cubs all seem appealing. Matthews, their topkick, acted unaware that his third game-winning hit in two days had moved him to the front of the league. Sandberg appeared surprised with himself and his most valuable season...
...climactic four-game series in Kansas City. Meanwhile, players of lesser means and greater resilience, the Minnesota Twins, were undone by a quirk. Former Royal Jamie Quirk, who began the season as a bullpen coach in St. Louis, was vacationing in the Ozarks the week before last when Cleveland called for an emergency catcher. On the way there, he paused in Kansas City to roast retired Pitcher Paul Splittorff and informed Third Baseman George Brett, "You may have to give me a part of your playoff share because I'm going to beat Minnesota." A few nights later, with...