Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While he was thinking, a Karafin story appeared in the Inquirer under an eight-column headline, warning Philadelphians that house-repair frauds were spreading. "High pressure salesmen" were preying on "unwary home owners." A spokesman for the Better Business Bureau was quoted as saying that "the only way to stop this racket is to expose it." Scolnick and Karafin again dropped around to see Py, found him convinced. Py wrote two checks, one for $3,000 and another for $2,000. Thereafter, Karafin stopped by Py's office every Monday morning for a regular retainer check. Over the next...
...commander of the 37th Tank Battalion, Abrams rode point in the race from Normandy to the Rhine in a string of command tanks-each of which he named Thunderbolt. He spearheaded the column that relieved the encircled 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Often cut off himself, the cigar-chomping tanker once said: "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." Abrams' embrace of battle earned him the unqualified admiration of his fiery Third Army Commander, George Patton: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army...
Rutgers' fast breaks broke Harvard on Tuesday, 7-3. Senior creaseman Steve Neubert joined Cain and sophomore Jim Kilkowski in the scoring column for Harvard...
Like the 10 O'Clock Show. Within a half hour after the battle began, an armored column only two miles away was dispatched to aid Suoi Tre's defenders. It was delayed by difficulty in crossing the steep-banked, muddy Suoi Samat River. Finally a crossing was filled in by a tank mounting a bulldozer blade. Just as the Americans at Suoi Tre were about to be overrun entirely, the delayed column of 80 armored personnel carriers and tanks rumbled through the trees. As they came, they crushed the massed Viet Cong beneath their treads and sprayed...
...season's start was still three weeks away, but in New York, Mickey Mantle's conversion from outfielder to first baseman-and his subsequent stop of a sizzling grounder in an exhibition game-competed for attention with President Johnson's return from Guam. Column after column chronicled the comeback attempt of Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford, 38, who underwent surgery for a circulatory blockage after a sorry 2-5 season in 1966. Ford was not going to sign his 1967 contract until he tested his repaired arm in spring training; the World Champion Baltimore Orioles bombed...