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...superb historian, McCullough (The Path Between the Seas, The Johnstown Flood) has done his homework on everything affecting Teddy's early life...
Franklin, who was being hunted by the FBI, was spotted last month selling a pint of blood for $7 in a blood bank in birmingham. Last week he was arrested in Lakeland, Fla. Authorities want to question him about a yearlong series of shootings-in Salt Lake City; Johnstown, PA,; Cincinnati; Indianapolis; Oklahoma and Fort Wayne, Ind.-which claimed the lives of eight black men and two white women and included the wounding of National Urban League President Vernon Jordan in May. All the attacks occured without warning, involved a high powered rifle, and, in four of the assaults...
...Robert A. Eckenrod Johnstown...
Frank Kush was the classic all-American success story. One of 15 children, he grew up in a company-owned house above coal Mine 35 outside Johnstown, Pa., won a football scholarship to Michigan State University, and in 1958 was named head coach at Arizona State in Tempe. There his Sun Devils became one of the toughest teams in the country. Kush's coaching record of 176 wins, 54 losses and one tie was second only to that of Alabama's Bear Bryant...
Teleprompter, the biggest MSO, with 1.2 million subscribers and revenues of $147 million last year, has had a yo-yo history. Founded in 1967 by Cable Visionary Irving Kahn, it expanded furiously by acquisition. Then, in 1971, Kahn went to prison, convicted of bribing officials in Johnstown, Pa., in order to get a franchise. Overexpansion and overborrowing from banks at high interest caught up with the company; in 1973 it lost $31 million. A new management team headed by Karp, a former treasurer of Columbia Pictures, has brought the company solidly back into the black. Last year it earned...