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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Browns lost the 1944 series to the Cardinals. They also lost their momentum. Nothing, including the midget and clown introduced after the war by Bill Veeck, could lure the fans. Sold to a Baltimore brewer who brought them to his own city and renamed them the Orioles, the Browns played their last season in St. Louis in 1953. As they had for most of their careers, the team played to almost empty stands. But at least they kept tradition alive. The 1953 St. Louis Browns finished last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oddball | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...these walkers, Joachim Lally, a priest at the Paulist Center, said he feels less tired in years when he walks as a clown because "the focus is outside myself...

Author: By Marc E. Raven, | Title: Walk for Hunger Draws 3600 For Twenty-Mile Sunday Hike | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...Dunn, coordinator for the Paulist Leadership and Renewal Project who also walked as a clown, said her costume was "a way of reaching people you ordinarily can't reach," including isolated elderly people who sit and watch walkers on Commonwealth Avenue...

Author: By Marc E. Raven, | Title: Walk for Hunger Draws 3600 For Twenty-Mile Sunday Hike | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...other for two years when Jud comes to visit. Scottie wants them to spend time together, but Jud counters each of his father's jokes and suggestions with icy, detached monosyllables, preferring to journey off to a museum exhibit alone. Scottie's doctor arrives and breaks the news: the clown has leukemia. Now the approaching reality of hospitalization and his possible imminent death evokes more mature feelings of parental guilt--Scottie resolves to try and win over his son. Jud, whom the doctor tells over Scottie's protests, agrees to try to understand the man who never was his father...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: If You Have a Lemmon, Make Tribute | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...construction worker and his sister Linda is a Bible freak at Colorado College. Paul Muffly and Lindy Moon are both pre-meds at CU; Lisa Norling and Bill Heiss are also at CU, where she is studying physical therapy and he is studying partying. Gale Lehman is a circus clown, Jim believes. Charlie Thompson, who was a professional ski patrolman at the time the Telluride picture was taken, is still a professional ski patrolman. On July 1, 1976, Jim Baldwin skied off a permanent snowfield atop Mount Epworth into a pile of rocks, fracturing his skull; he died half...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Tonto and the Ranger Hit the Jackpot at 10,000 Feet, or, Diamond Jim Cleans Out the Moffat Tunnel | 3/11/1978 | See Source »

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