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Come Friday nights, the boisterous gang congregates at the neighboring bars, the Hawaiian, the Whistle Stop or the Red Lion (a pseudo pub), to swap leg- pulling tales and practice one-upmanship by inventing sidesplitter headlines. Billy Burt, editor of the Examiner, proffers the classic example of HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR as the quintessence of a tabloid art form. Balfour opts for convolution: THE TOASTER POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL or, better, THE DOG THAT SHOT ITS OWNER. All voice serious concern that unimaginative headlines -- GIRL, 11, BECOMES GRANDMOTHER -- are replacing zany eye-catchers -- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS USED MAP PREPARED...
...South Dakotan said he designed the provision to help small ethanol makers, but it could represent a substantial benefit for the the Archer Daniels Midland Co., the large Decatur, Illinois corn processing company that makes the lion's share of U.S. ethanol...
Harvard's offense was provided by Co-Captain Frank Caprio, who drove in four runs with a double, homerun and a sacrifice fly. The Crimson broke through against Lion hurler Frank Seminara for a run in the first and two in the third. Harvard finally knocked Seminara out of the game with five runs in the fourth inning...
...Lion ace Bart Barnett held the Crimson to just four hits and seven baserunners over seven innings to earn a shutout win. Harvard never had more than two runners on base in the same inning and no Crimson player got as far as third base...
...physician beat him to the journals with his findings on the pain-killing properties of coca. His own paper on the subject was well received, but as he wrote in an 1884 letter to his sister-in-law, "the cocaine business has indeed brought me much honor, but the lion's share to others...