Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apparently, that's still the same way he operates. Spectators at Monday's marathon saw Salazar stay back behind Dick Beardsley for the entire last six miles of the race--until he surged to the lead with less than half a mile...
...Dick and Ginny Philbin Quechee...
...stories make dandy reading he has a tine eye for detail, especially the little ties of behavior that signal long term, grinding animosity--but Hometown may not add up to anything more than a bundle of interesting observations. It's too much detail and too little thought--like Moby Dick with just the stuff about whales. Certainly Davis deserves much credit for digging into these people's lives and understanding them on their own terms, unlike so many outsiders in search of "the pulse of the nation. "For six years, on and off, he lived in Hamilton, and it shows...
...Steinbrenner! ABC sports reporter Dick Schaap gives The Great White Shipbuilder as fair a treatment as he'll probably ever get. Oh, he can't resist the usual jokes--he calls his subject "George III" for his tyrannical reign over the ballclub, and "the Yankee Clipper" for forcing his charges to get haircuts. (That demand angered at least one Yankee--outfielder Oscar Gamble, whose legendary afro added more than 12" to his six-foot frame, forcing his to affix his baseball cap with bobby pips...
...Dick Casey, 87, still lives, thank God. But for the first time in upwards of 40 years he failed to make the scene. Each morning it was Tommy's habit to drive Casey and his wife to 8:30 Mass at St. Joseph's Church in Winter Haven, then on to Chain O' Lakes Park. Casey's booming voice could be heard a block away. "It's not the same this year without him," Tommy says...