Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHICH BRINGS US to John Wayne the Man. He may have won a Congressional medal, but he could never have won a Purple Heart; 20 years before he called for draft resisters to be jailed and beat in the kidneys with large branches, he was a draft dodger himself, along with Hubert Humphrey and other hawkish cancer victims. No, Wayne didn't want to fight Hitler-he might get hurt. But he didn't mind thrashing his wives, who couldn't fight back, Puerto Rican women he found in Personals in El Diario...
...Which Dodger broke up Ewell Blackwell's bid for a double no-hitter...
...strangler's victims included a prostitute and a runaway, whose nude bodies were found tossed into wooded areas. His eighth and ninth victims, however, were twelve-year-old girls, school chums at a Catholic elementary school who disappeared while out shopping. The killer dumped their bodies near Dodger Stadium...
...that bearded man in the picture 1) Ulysses S. Grant, 2) Rutherford B. Hayes, 3) Benjamin Harrison, 4) none of the above? Full credit for answering none. It's Marlon Brando, safely returned from the planet Krypton after all, and unexpectedly bewhiskered. Brando, appearing in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium for the Rev. Jesse Jackson's "Push for Excellence" rally, did not mention the new growth. He delivered a rambling homily about the American Indian, his favorite cause, and suggested that "sometimes, just staying alive is a push for excellence." Explained a Brando aide about his newly hirsute...
Harvard drew first blood early, as junior sensation Pete Predun scored the first of these goals on a pretty dodger play with only 45 seconds gone in the first quarter...