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...Arrogant omnipotence." "Unworthy foreign intervention." Those epithets, and others, blared from a full-page advertisement last week in one of El Salvador's largest newspapers, El Diario de Hoy. Sponsored by the 702-member Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the broadside reflected a swelling tide of outrage in the conservative business community against U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton, 59. Reason for the uproar: in the toughest speech he has made in his 17 months in El Salvador, Hinton cautioned that the U.S. "could be forced to deny assistance to El Salvador" if the country did not substantially improve...
Before he retired, Hoy married a deaf mute named Anna Maria, who taught at a school for the deaf in Cincinnati. His teammates were intrigued by the couple's unusual doorbell. The caller pulled a knob which released a lead ball on the floor. The Hoys heard the vibrations through their feet and knew someone was at the door...
...Hoy made his last public appearance in 1961 when he threw out the game ball for the third game of the World Series between Cincinnati and the Yankees. He died that December at the age of 99, the oldest ex-major leaguer then living...
...Dummy Hoy is never considered by the Hall of Fame selectors, and it has now been 75 years since he last swung...
Indeed it's not. Dummy Hoy was truly the glory of his time...