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...rounded up Dillinger, Floyd, Nelson and Barrow. Sure, some realized that the cases for the show were selected from the choicest FBI files--probably pre-selected to make sure that the epilogue didn't have the fugitives escaping on some illegal wire-tap charge or rubber-hose beating. But what we didn't know is that the FBI never let the script-writers have the last word. After the writers created the dialogue, the script was delivered to the Los Angeles Field Office of the FBI where it was checked for content and accuracy. From there the script went...
Kirk, who started his musical career playing a water hose, once had a strange dream about 20 years ago. He saw himself playing three horns. He recognized one immediately, the tenor sax, his native instrument...
...McGraw is a businessman, he is one after Bill Veeck's heart. It may not be just a boy's game, but last year while the Braves were taking batting practice, McGraw hid out of sight with a hose and periodically sprinkled then-Brave Ralph Garr, who kept staring at the sunny sky in amazement. You often get that kind of thing in baseball. Once before a game in St. Louis, Bob Uecker, then a journeyman catcher, now an ABC announcer, borrowed a tuba from a band that was playing on the field and used it to shag...
...ventured west from Mount Vernon, N.Y., to seek his fortune, R. Lad Handelman learned quickly that there was more money in diving than in tending a diver's airline, as he had been doing. Says he: "I figured I was on the wrong end of the hose." He became a diver and spent a decade combing the seabed off California for abalone. Today, at 39, Handelman is again topside: this time as president of Oceaneering International, Inc., a Houston-based company that in 6½ years has become the largest publicly owned firm in an arcane but fast-growing...
There were a few changes in the Hose's homecoming--some new names on the roster, an American League pennant blowing crazily in center field, meter marks indicating the distance down the lines, and $1.2 million scoreboard that led the crowd in a National Anthem sing-along, and flashed instant replays and useless batting line-ups throughout the game...