Word: hops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angle to it," says one longtime staffer, "Jim just don't care." His particular talent, in the '40s and early '50s, was to make it seem as if bodies in trunks were arriving hourly at Union Station-and when one did, Richardson expected every staffer to hop on the story as if the next body might be his own. When Richardson himself scored the biggest local beat of the decade-a 32-column exclusive on the prison love notes exchanged by Beulah Overell and her boy friend while awaiting trial for the yacht murder of her parents...
Aaron started to learn his trade as a kid on the sand lots of Mobile, Ala. After high school he joined the barnstorming Indianapolis Clowns, an all-Negro team. "One time in 1952 we made a 900-mile hop," he recalls. "We left Chattanooga right after a night game, rode all night, the next day and part of the next too. Then we played that night in Buffalo. I got ten hits in eleven trips...
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...works a kind of rhythmic logic all his own. There are the same echoes of a distorted reality that characterize Kafka -the sound of church bells (or is it thunder?), snatches of bugles and drums (but what living army ever marched to such a beat?), or a sudden hop and skip, as of a fragmented polka (but no belle ever danced to such measures...
...time peccadilloes. But Turner and Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster, key figure in the Portland scandal. From there it was a short hop into Dave Beck's plush Seattle parlor...