Word: finley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handing out free nylons to lady customers, there is now a Cash Scramble Day in Philadelphia featuring a group of fans battling for bills scattered across the field. "Action! Action! Action! With a little blood mixed in?that's what the fans want," says Oakland Owner Charles O. Finley...
...Finley's stadium the action ranges from fireworks to greased-pig chases. In St. Louis it is rock, opera and country-and-western music concerts between doubleheaders. Atlanta boasts what it calls the "world's largest calliope" and Chief Noc-a-Homa, a full-blooded Indian who does a war dance on the mound before each game. There is an endless variety of "Days": Bat Day, Ball Day, Helmet Day, T Shirt Day, Poster Day, Cushion Day, Sunglasses Day, Hot Pants Day, Wild West Day, Honor America Day, Latin America Day, A-Students Day, Plattsburgh Day. The day has also...
...gals and giveaways undoubtedly help to fill some empty seats, any club owner would trade in his erupting Scoreboard tomorrow for one 20-game winner. "Give me a day with Vida Blue," says Senators' Vice President Joe Burke, "and 20,000 people will find their way to the stadium." Finley, the Barnum of baseball, is the first to agree: "You've got to have a good team. You can't ballyhoo a funeral...
...talk to students in the Visual Studies Department, seemed profoundly uncomfortable when asked to introduce his works. As the Carpenter Center seems out of place in the midst of its red-brick, ivied, neo-classic or neo-gothic architectural neighbors (prompting the famous remark of Classics Professor John Huston Finley: "It looks like two pianos copulating!"), Frank felt out of place being even remotely in the vicinity of a school. "Colleges are giant hatcheries," said Frank. "Now that I have come here, today, this is the first time I really felt I understood what the word underground means. The bigness...
There was plenty of talking when the tribes gathered in Washington again, but unlike Finley, who was booed off the podium, most of the people there thought it was important. It's gotten to be kind of a regular thing: every six months or so, a bunch of anti-war types get together to plan the spring offensive against the war, or the fall offensive against the war. They come and talk about the new horrors of the war, and renew acquaintances with other activists they haven't seen since the last conference. And then they go home to mobilize...