Word: finley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus and the lecturer in Hum 103, said yesterday that his course is popular because the section people are "marvelous" and the subject matter is inherently interesting...
...arrival creates a sensation, for he is on the arm of an aging Hollywood star, the Princess Kosmonopolis, whose drug kick he plans to use to blackmail her out of her fortune. But Heavenly's father, Boss Finley intervenes; he puts out a contract on Chance's manhood...
Bowie Kuhn, the Commissioner of Baseball, must have been a happy man last week. For the first time in four years, the World Series was not a stage for Kuhn's No. 1 nemesis, A's Owner Charlie Finley, and Oakland's annual post-season melodrama of clubhouse brawls and management-player disputes. Instead, baseball's show of shows was a tight, tense struggle between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. It even featured an old-fashioned flap over an umpire's call and an indeterminably aged Cuban pitcher with a penchant for cigars...
Perhaps he had just rejected his past. Oscar Ameringer, editor of the Labor World, later wrote that Hall got "tired of advertising the fact that his father had made an ass of himself fighting for slaves he might have sold to the Yanks and still kept as sharecroppers." Ira Finley, another friend, wrote of Hall that "trained and educated to be a respectable citizen, "he "rather chose to be a companion of the Toilers." Perhaps, but I think not, for Covington Hall was neither a cynic about nor a rejecter of the Old South...
...American League the A's are not fretting, no matter whom they play. Oakland has won the last three World Series, and Insatiable Owner Charlie Finley is hungry for a fourth. Reggie Jackson, Gene Tenace and Billy Williams are all regular home-run producers, and Claudell Washington hits consistently. When they reach base, the A's tear around like speed freaks, and Finley has "designated runner" Matt Alexander in reserve. Oakland does not hit for high averages, but the bats boom when it counts...