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DIED. Lawrence Hoyt, 81, entrepreneurial book merchandiser who pushed bestsellers more than good writers, turning a chain of department store penny-a-day rental libraries he co-founded in 1932 into Waldenbooks, the nation's largest chain of booksellers with 800 splashy, look-alike retail outlets; in Bridgeport, Conn...
...Smith Reader generously demonstrates, the columnist preferred to write about athletes with a touch of the rogue. His portrait of Babe Ruth is a small masterpiece. It ends with two Yankee teammates, Waite Hoyt and Joe Dugan, sitting together at Ruth's funeral on a sweltering day in 1948. "I'd give a hundred dollars for a cold beer," Dugan whispers. "So would the Babe," Hoyt replies...
...Almon, Morrison 2, Gedman, DP-Chicago 3. Boston 1, LOS-Chicago 11, Boston 8, 2B-Kemp, Fisk, Bernazard, Gedman 2. HR-Yastrzemski (2), SB-Lansford, Leflore, Almon, S-Remy. CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO Dotson W, 1-0 6 5 1 1 2 5 Hoyt 2 1/2 4 1 0 1 1 Hickey 1/2 0 0 0 0 1 Barojas 8-2 1/2 0 0 0 0 0 BOSTON Terres L,0-1 6 1/2 6 3 3 3 4 Clear...
...game is really a lottery: its sponsors know that of the 250,000 cards doled out weekly only two bear the number of the first-place horse. Except for one week last month, when an extra 500 $1,000 chits were somehow distributed. Says Company President Roger Hoyt: "About ten minutes after the game was aired, we knew we had a problem." But Sampson Supermarkets are not welching: the stores will pay off all of the unintended prizewinners, and so far 330 people have collected. Says an exultant Mrs. Arthur Poulin of Lewiston: "We called them and then they called...
...DIED. Hoyt Fuller, 57, educator and literary critic who, as managing editor of Negro Digest and its successor Black World between 1961 and 1976, helped turn the magazine into a showcase for the nation's finest black writers; of a heart attack; in Atlanta...