Word: fenton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Casey Stengel, who once tipped his hat to the crowd and released a bird that was nesting in his hair; Bobo Holloman, who pitched only one complete game in the majors-and that one a no-hitter. There are players whose names alone could render them immortal: Eli Grba, Fenton Mole, Eppa Rixey, Wally Pipp, Napoleon Lajoie. All these men, the immortals and the "flakes," exist like the game beyond the erosions of style and time...
...proselytizers have mostly aimed their message at Israeli youth. Responding to the fears of alarmed Orthodox Jewish parents, Harold Fenton, a Jerusalem pharmacologist, has organized a spiritual counterattack. His committee has infiltrated Jews for Jesus meetings and discovered that some 1,270 youths (predominantly American Jews) are in operation. Fenton and friends now drop in on Christian youth hostels and missionary schools, seek out young Jews wearing Jesus buttons, and try to persuade them to move...
...Jews for Jesus invasion and Fenton's counterattack have helped revive an Orthodox campaign to expel all Christian missions from Israel. Some of the uproar has spilled over into the Israeli government. Last month four Cabinet ministers were assigned to consider drafting a new law to curb "the Christian missionaries of the Jews for Jesus movement." But Justice Minister Ya'acov Shapiro believes that Israel must continue its liberal policies toward other religions: "If you want to rule Jerusalem, you must accept this kind of thing." And the Liberal Party's Yitzhak Golan says: "In a democracy...
...Fenton has brought in F. Lee Bailey, the celebrated criminal lawyer and a longtime friend of Hefner's, to serve as the showcase publisher of Gallery. Cracks Bailey in Gallery's first issue: "You may expect a Hefty supply of dressed and undressed ladies in our pages which we intend to be beautiful, sensual and stimulating." He disclaims any "intent to enter the current publishing contest to see who can print the most daring display of pubic hair...
...total was Gallery's copying of Playboy in its first issue that Hefner's lawyers started inspecting it for possible copyright infringement, and Bailey reportedly rebuked Spurlock for overdoing the imitation. Gallery's next issue is to be partly redesigned, but Fenton is unworried. "All magazines," he says blandly, "have similarities...