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...setting of Bronx Primitive seems strange turf for the Yankee Clipper of the travel book (New York, Places and Pleasures; England's Green and Pleasant Land). In fact, she is at home in every sense. Kate is not short for Katherine but an alteration of Kaila, the name her Polish-Jewish parents gave her when she was born in Warsaw nearly 70 years ago. Simon took her first trip at age four, in steerage, aboard the Susquehanna, bound for New York City. There she grew up in neighborhoods where English had many accents...
...Steinbrenner! ABC sports reporter Dick Schaap gives The Great White Shipbuilder as fair a treatment as he'll probably ever get. Oh, he can't resist the usual jokes--he calls his subject "George III" for his tyrannical reign over the ballclub, and "the Yankee Clipper" for forcing his charges to get haircuts. (That demand angered at least one Yankee--outfielder Oscar Gamble, whose legendary afro added more than 12" to his six-foot frame, forcing his to affix his baseball cap with bobby pips...
...saddest story of all is Pan American's. Once the undisputed world leader of commercial aviation, Pan Am filled the skies with its elegant Clipper ships and, later, Boeing 747 jets. Yet in April, when Juan T. Trippe, one of the last of U.S. aviation's founding patriarchs, died at 81, the airline he established and built was barely scraping by, subsisting in part on $294.4 million from the sale of its Manhattan office building...
Hatamiya then showed the form which lifted Quincy over South House in last week's House championship game, hitting receiver par excellence Art "the Quincy Clipper" O'Keefe for 40 big yards. A pass interference call on the next play gave Quincy the ball on the Calhoun five, but after Nichols bulled to the one, a Hatamiya fumble squelched the drive, and the half ended with Quincy...
...minor last-minute scare, Quincy dominated the second half. After a key John Garvey fumble recovery on the Quincy 45, Hatamiya went to work, converting two clutch fourth and yardage situations for important first downs, before unloading a pinpoint 20-yard T.D. missile to Art "the Quincy Clipper" O'Keefe...