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...those who sang the national anthem along with Gladys Goodding and lost interest in the Dodgers after they went to Los Angeles to become ballplayers to the stars. He also touches a lot of other bases, sentimentalizing about his newspaper days, describing the selection of his father's coffin, visiting the apartment buildings where cozy Ebbets Field once stood. The tone throughout is unashamedly elegiac, though not totally uncalculated. Kahn's love and respect for his subjects provide a sensitive measurement of the years - years that have seen football all but replace baseball as the No. 1 national...
Yale coach Phil Moriarty, as well-known a personality in New Haven as Kingman Brewster and William Sloane Coffin, has suffered through his worst dual meet season in years, losing three times--one of these times at home. The thought of an added loss to arch-rival Harvard, especially before a crowd composed largely of Friends of Yale swimming, was more than he could take in one season. This attitude was in evidence all afternoon, as Yale took the medley relay to open the meet and kept on winning throughout the afternoon...
...demonstration, more than 4,000 antibusing marchers toted American flags and a coffin inscribed DEATH OF FREEDOM as they massed outside the state capitol to hear City Councilman Howard Carwile denounce progressive Governor Linwood Holton as "gutless, spineless, no good," a man who made him "think of euthanasia." The Rev. John Spong, the esteemed rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and a cousin of Democratic U.S. Senator William Spong Jr., took to the pulpit last week to label Carwile's remarks as "the cheap shot of an insensitive politician." The councilman was unrepentant. Dismissing Spong...
Things were not made easier by the layout of the station. The record library is at one end of the hall, and other records are kept in a footlocker at the other end of the hall. (The footlocker is euphemistically called the coffin. It's where records that are too good to be ripped off are kept.) When we received a request we would have to run to the record library, run to the coffin, and check the records we had brought. But after finding the record I couldn't just throw it on. Instead, the record...
...with half empty Pepsi bottles and coffee cups interspersed with teetering piles of records and after one look at Kathy's heavy eye lids, I had no desire to hunt a mirror. Slowly we got up and began the routine of returning the records to the library, to the coffin, and to the bookbags...