Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world in a disembodied voice from behind a huge paper head, Howard Hughes for the last ten years of his life communicated with his business staff chiefly by memos. He wrote down his instructions in pen on yellow legal pads, and the memos were delivered by his loyal Mormon retainers. His handwriting, though unstylish, was clear, but when he was nervous or overwrought he splattered his memos with word and sentence changes. Most of the missives went to Robert Maheu, his trusted top aide until the two men broke in late 1970. Maheu read the memos and handed them back...
Died. Mary Margaret McBride, 76, homespun radio talk-show hostess whose loyal fans once filled Yankee Stadium in tribute; after a long illness; in West Shokan, N.Y. On network radio for nearly 20 years, she started her guests talking comfortably "by telling a story about them that's funny or sweet." A Missouri-born Baptist, she refused to advertise either alcohol or tobacco but kept a number of food sponsors very happy (and her weight at 180 Ibs. or so) by sampling their products on the air and talking lyrically about them...
...that Fridays in New Haven are so great to begin with, but yesterday was a particularly bad one for Loyal Park and the Crimson batsmen, as they fell to the Elis, 4-0, and in the process, proved beyond a shadow of a basecall cap that the results of Harvard's spring jaunt to Florida are about as meaningful as hourly grades...
...Peccerillo's base hit to left after an error and a double by Goetz, but the relay from third base on the play caught Goetz trying to score. Pinch hitter Mike Lynch's line drive to left was gloved, and the curtain fell on another loss for Loyal Park's troops...
...Harvard baseball team's bicentennial tour of the East coast ended in shambles Saturday, as coach Loyal Park's charges proved that Friday's Philadelphia disaster was no fluke by dropping a doubleheader 24 hours later to the suddenly-respectable Columbia Lions in New York City...