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...postal worker who became bowling's biggest star at the height of its popularity in the '60s; in Florissant, Mo. The unfailingly polite Hall of Famer helped found the Professional Bowlers Association in 1958 and went on to win 26 tour events and six seniors titles. A self-described ham, he promoted the sport with such exploits as bowling on a Miami beach and taking aim at lava lamps on David Letterman's late-night TV show...
...Ham Radio Relief: Building Bridges...
...OFFENDED BY THE CHARACTERIZATION OF HAM RADIO AS a "faintly embarrassing hobby" in the article "Blogs Have Their Day" [Dec. 27--Jan. 3]. Ham radio operators--I have been one for 47 years--provided emergency communication after the Indian Ocean tsunami. They have supplied similar public service in many other situations, including the Florida hurricanes. Our systems include thousands of repeaters that receive and transmit throughout the U.S., connections with the Internet and more. Ham radio bridges the gap between countries and peoples; there are more than 750,000 operators in the U.S. and many thousands more overseas...
...state, in effect, that the networks, with a surplus of eager sponsors to accommodate, are selling horsemeat to the public in the guise of steak. How true. Most of the material that nowadays insults the intelligence and is billed as topflight entertainment is a combination of ham and sow's ear, with neither guise, nor, worse, apology. The blame for this does not belong to the consuming public, whose sense of taste and discernment, once fairly encouraging, has been hammered into near oblivion by several years of Gleasons, Godfreys and giveaways. It belongs to the producer networks, who, like their...
...long beard," reads a medieval Irish description. "The second ... beardless and ruddy-complexioned ... the third, black-skinned and heavily bearded." Scholars have suggested that the mix either was intended to underscore Christianity's world-wide ambitions or referred back to an earlier diverse threesome, Noah's sons Shem, Ham and Japheth...