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...half-hour sports shows at $200 each over ABC's station WBKB-TV. Said Duggan, by now used to landing on his feet: "I'm not trying to be a crusader on sports. I'm more like an umpire, calling the plays as I see 'em...
Departing from the steps of the Newton City Hall at 6:00 a.m. amid shouts of "give 'em hell for Newton," he began his army career. Though originally intended for physical instructors school, by virtue of a wrong turn he arrived at Fort Benning, Ga., and paratroop school. There followed a three week intensive course and successful jump. But his knee injury acted up so violently that he was shipped to Murphy General Hospital and finally discharged in September...
...return to the big leagues. The older fans could still recall the heyday of the old big-league Orioles, who won three straight pennants-1894-96-and boasted such baseball immortals as Third Baseman John ("Muggsy") McGraw, Shortstop Hughie Jennings, Catcher Wilbert Robinson and Outfielder Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler. Baltimore's return to the big leagues, it appeared, would have to wait a while...
Unhappy Man. In one recent script, Marshal Dillon arrives too late to prevent a lynching. Says Macdonnell: "We got tired of the standard save-'em-just-in-time show. As the play progresses, Matt learns that the guy who was lynched was completely innocent. He knows who the lynch leaders were, but what can he do? Nothing, not in those days, against those odds. So he leaves, without doing anything tangible. And yet, after he is gone, he has left behind in the minds of the townspeople a sense of tremendous shame for what they have done...
...miss my biggest class," he said. "Really pack em in on Friday." He leaned his body against the locker room door. It swung open, and we started up the stairs to the main floor. "End of the week, you know. Get a big rush for that final p.t. on Friday...