Word: darryl
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...failed to reach Super Bowl XIV, but Oakland Raiders Safety Jack Tatum is making his presence known off the field with about as much impact as the bruising tackles that have made him one of football's worst-feared defensive players. Tatum, who left New England Patriots Receiver Darryl Stingley paralyzed from the neck down after a 1978 encounter, has set down a chilling account of his violent career. The book, written with Pro-turned-Journalist Bill Kushner, was published last week (Everest House; $9.95). Its grisly title: They Call Me Assassin...
...last four or five years, we have had very little of the spillover from Boston's racial problems," assistant city manager Robert Healy said last night. Neighboring Boston has been sharply divided by court-ordered busing to achieve racial integration in the schools. A black student, Darryl Williams, was shot in the city last fall...
...DIED. Darryl Zanuck, 77, imperious production chief at 20th Century-Fox for 35 years and a thousand films; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. The cigar-chomping, polo-playing mogul got his Hollywood break when Warner Bros, hired him as a $250-a-week scenarist for Rin Tin Tin. In four years he was head of production at 20 times that salary. Warner's Wunderkind brought dialogue to feature films (The Jazz Singer, 1927) and pioneered such realistic genres as the gangster and "working gal" films. In 1933 Zanuck and United Artists Head Joseph M. Schenck formed 20th Century...