Word: leroux
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...team player. He understood the dynamics of 25 guys trying to win 162 ball games a year and resents anyone who tried to interfere with that. Throughout their history the Red Sox's greatest obstacle has been the team's management and front office. The current Haywood Sullivan-Buddy Leroux power struggle over the team is only the long sorry history of bungled trades, bad player management and outright stupidity. Although he does it indirectly, Lee paints a very clear picture of what has, is and probably always will be wrong with...
...have also heard enough about the city's favorite three-ring-circus--LeRoux, Sullivan and Yawkey...
...first signs are small, puzzling and all too easy to dismiss. For Chicago Journalist Charles Leroux, it was his mother's diminishing ability to manage her checkbook and count change. For Frank Holmes, a retired Boston businessman, it was the wild spending sprees by his once prudent wife and her increasing tendency to garble phone messages. For Eleanor Zimmerlein, an Illinois farmer's wife, it was the decline in the quality of her husband's handiwork: "Suddenly the row of shingles he'd put on the roof would be crooked, and he couldn...
...Boston media. TV's Bob Lobel and play-by-play man Ken Harrelson are only two of the media figures who have openly criticized the regime. These things don't show up in the pre-season ticket sales ("We're only running behind one percent")--part-owner Buddy LeRoux) but unless Houk or Frank Tanana is a magician, the empty seats will be there come April...
...police theorized that the murderer had to be someone who was familiar with the Met's backstage maze of corridors, dressing rooms, stairways and elevator shafts, in which Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera would feel very much at home. Further, said the officers, the killer probably was a Met employee, since he managed to get by guards at the door and pass unchallenged among the 250 dancers, musicians and stagehands who were present for the performance...