Word: hookey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What manner of man was this new world celebrity? The week brought forth the first crop of Luciani stories: the schoolboy in the foothills of the Dolomite Alps playing hookey to catch birds, the farm boy doing chores barefoot to save shoe leather for his poor family, the young seminary professor devouring books during his two sojourns in a tuberculosis sanitorium...
...only real contest at the convention-the only passionate one involving money, reputation and suspense -was between two closely matched news organizations, NBC and CBS (ABC, listening to its own mercenary heart, looked in at the convention from time to time, but preferred to play hookey with the likes of the All-Star game and thereby gained in the ratings). So much future prestige and so many advertising dollars were at stake that NBC, for example, is spending close to $10 million on the two conventions. That's a lot more than either party is spending on them...
Like anyone in the six-figure bracket, Quarterback Fran Tarkenton of the New York Giants has tax problems. So the business-minded scrambler played hookey instead of football in the first pre-season game because the Giants management would not give him a large loan (paying interest on such a loan while putting the money to work is one way to beat the tax man). With the Jets' Joe Namath hospitalized by a knee injury, it appeared for a while that pro football fans in New York would have no first-string quarterback playing for them this fall...