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These manglings of Gaelic were once the common language of Brooklyn cabbies, policemen and longshoremen -not to mention baseball fans. One linguistically memorable day at Ebbets Field in the 1930s, when Dodger Pitcher Waite Hoyt was hit by a ball, a spectator jumped up on the bleachers and shouted out, "Hurt is hoyt!" Over the years, as they grew more prosperous, New York's Irish scattered into the affluent suburbs. Blacks and Puerto Ricans have all but taken over such areas as Williamsburg (formerly Williamsboig) and Greenpoint (Greenpernt) in northern Brooklyn, where Brooklynese was born. At the same time...
...least some of Home-Stake's victims now admit embarrassedly that they should have known better. Hoyt Ammidon, chairman of U.S. Trust Co., concedes that the oil department of his own bank took a dim view of Home-Stake, but he disregarded its opinion and invested $114,000. A revised Home-Stake prospectus issued in 1971 should have raised red flags for businessmen, if they read it. Robert Metzger, president of Resource Programs, a firm that sells advice to investors in oil and gas, says that he and his colleagues used to "sit down and read the Home-Stake...
...this might be amusing if the Children were not so efficient in their indoctrination of converts, who still go through months of spiritual brainwashing. Those who escape often have to leave a lot behind. When David Hoyt, an early leader of the Jesus movement, joined the C.O.G. in Atlanta, he took along many of his flock-and found himself and his friends shipped out within days. "They took over our houses, our vehicles, and about $17,000," recalls Hoyt, who rose to leadership in the C.O.G. before leaving them in disgust. But Hoyt, now in Britain...
Prisoners today furnish virtually the entire pool of subjects for the initial human testing of all new drugs in the U.S., Author Jessica Mitford reported recently. Not everyone is happy about that fact-least of all Superintendent Hoyt Cupp of the Oregon State Penitentiary. In the Walled Street Bulletin, the prison's newspaper, Cupp argued that the poverty or prisoners as well as the reality of their incarceration meant that it was impossible for them to be truly "free agents" when asked to participate in medical-testing programs. For those reasons, all the Oregon prison's experimentation programs...
...campaign Columbia Journalism Review Editor Alfred Balk lamented: "My heart bleeds for our trade." Yet there were some praiseworthy exceptions by reporters and writers who dug beneath the bleak surface to uncover new material and insights. The greatest impact was probably made by the Knight Newspapers' Clark Hoyt, who unearthed Tom Eagleton's medical history. Laurels also go to the Washington Post's investigative team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, young reporters who diligently pursued the Watergate affair and, during much of October, made daily national headlines with their findings. Other outstanding performances...