Word: hammering
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Before John Hammer was thrown out of office as chairman of the Florida Turnpike Authority, he sent a complaining letter to Governor Farris Bryant. It concerned a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, Martin Oliver Waldron, 39, who, said Hammer, had been "rude, discourteous, ungentlemanly, and roared at my employees." No one from the governor on down could challenge the accuracy of that description-or wonder why Hammer should be so annoyed. For it was the rude, discourteous, ungentlemanly and roaring reporter from the Times who cost John Hammer...
While Waldron was working on this suspicion, a tipster called from Tampa -collect-and invited him down. There he learned something about the extravagant tastes of John Hammer, Governor Bryant's appointee as Turnpike Authority chairman. While on the job, Hammer stayed at a $65-a-day hotel room, paid as much as $30 a day to eat, and put corsages for his secretary on the tab. He chartered a plane, and charged taxpayers for more hours aloft than the plane was actually flown. Under Hammer's loose hand, headlined the Times, a $100 million road had stretched...
Plugging the Leaks. Unraveling this skein of questionable public arithmetic took 4,500 inches in the Times: about 150,000 words. It was worth the effort. Out went the high-living John Hammer, and in went five new state laws that plugged the holes through which millions of tax dollars had leaked. It was a prime example of the kind of investigative reporting that a good reporter on a crusading newspaper ought to do. So it should have been no surprise last week when the Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service went to the St. Petersburg Times. Martin Waldron...
...topped 6 ft., 9 in. Pardee holds a slight edge over the Eli jumper in their meetings thus far and will have something extra going for him in the person of Jack Spitzberg, whose 6 ft., 4 1/2 in. jump on Tuesday will give Hill something to worry about. hammer throw and Chuck Mercein...
Croasdale matched his shot put finish with a second place in the hammer throw. Hampered by a slippery throwing circle, he managed only a sub-par 168 ft. toes. Northeastern's Bill Corsetti won it with a 187 ft. heave...