Word: leroy
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...accusation and invective") and jive ("I like to make deals that give me my money and my honey at the same time"), King loves to hold forth on anything from capitalism to existentialism. Over his desk he keeps an incongruous pair of portraits: an original of Ali by LeRoy Neiman and a print of Rembrandt's Aristotle contemplating the Bust of Homer...
...Died. Leroy Anderson, 66, pop composer-conductor; of lung cancer; in Woodbury, Conn. Anderson launched what became a long career in Tin Pan Alley with Sleigh Ride, in 1947, an instantly popular orchestral piece that established his relentlessly bouncy style. His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts...
...Durr lobbied for "public interest" channels, helping to make possible today's PBS-TV network. Later, in his native Alabama, Durr defended Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress, whose 1955 arrest for violating Montgomery's bus segregation ordinance became a landmark in the struggle for integration. ∙ Died. Leroy "Buddy" McHugh, 84, legendary police reporter; of heart disease; in Chicago. Last survivor of the brash Chicago press corps depicted in The Front Page, McHugh used every ploy to scoop competitors: posing as a coroner to get privileged information, hiding behind police sergeants' desks and answering their phones. Though...
William's score at the close of the first 30 minutes came on a crazy play in which Harvard goaltender LeRoy Thompson fell during an attempted clear. Ephman captain Bob Pinkard scooped up the ball, waltzed by two defenders plagued with a bad case of left feet, and whipped a tally into the open...
...most satisfied man at the track, though, was undoubtedly Jolley. A look-alike but not act-alike for Comedian Bob Newhart, the taciturn Jolley, 37, was bred for the Derby. Born in Hot Springs, Ark., while his father, Trainer Moody Jolley, was racing there, LeRoy was a stable veteran at 19, when he received a trainer's license in New York and dropped out of the University of Miami to race full time. Foolish Pleasure was only his second Derby entry in an otherwise solid but unspectacular career. One of the hardest workers in the business, Jolley says: "Most...