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...Edgar E. Dickey...
...baseball fan for half a century, I dispute Tom Callahan's contention that we all depreciate present-day stars in favor of those from our youth [Aug. 22]. I rate Johnny Bench ahead of Mickey Cochrane, Bill Dickey and Roy Campanella. I rate Strikeout Artist Nolan Ryan above Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean and Sandy Koufax. And I rate Callahan's pithy, disciplined but delicious piece on the waning golden age above any single article I have ever read by Grantland Rice or Red Smith. So, Tom, don't go around prejudging us as prejudgers! Hear...
...will take lot longer than a month for New York fans to forget that day. Quarterback Richard Todd racked up four touchdowns against a porous Packer defense, and the Jets' defensive front four, led by Mark Gastineau and Joe Klecko, put constant pressure on beleaguered Green Bay QB Lynn Dickey...
BORN. To James Dickey, 58, Southern poet and novelist (Deliverance), and his wife Deborah, 29, a girl, her first child, his third; in Columbia, S.C.; weight 5 lbs. 5 oz. Name: Bronwen Elaine...
...Drake, N. Dak., the five-member school board in 1973 ordered the confiscation and burning of three books that, according to Professor Jenkinson, none of the members had read: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology of short stories by writers like Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned...