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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: The Rogues of Tabloid Valley | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House, Senate Pass Drought Aid Bill | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Crimson Falls Out of EIBL Pennant Race | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Crimson Falls Out of EIBL Pennant Race | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Piece of the True Couch FREUD: A LIFE FOR OUR TIME | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

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