Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kevin Shaw slumped against the back wall, motionless and expressionless, for minutes. Gerken paced quickly away. Adler shook his head in disbelief. Coach Dave Fish wore a face of granite. The team manager slapped close his notebook, covering the scorecard's tally: Yale 5, Harvard...
...exemplified by February's killing of Mafia Consigliere Frank ("Bomp") Bompensiero, 71. Shortly before 8 p.m. on Feb. 10, Bomp walked from his San Diego home to a nearby public telephone booth, which he used as an office in order to avoid wiretaps. In his pocket was a notebook containing coded balance sheets of loan-shark usury payments and lists of coded phone numbers. The numbers turned out to be those of other public telephones scattered through California and Nevada. The phones constitute a West Coast Mafia hot-line system...
When the body was found, the notebook was missing...
...gloriously cerulean sky. Simultaneously, Anderson studied his athletes, alerted fans to fouls, signed autographs, smiled at children and interviewed himself. The night before I'd mentioned that I wanted to ask about managing the Reds. "Sparky" Anderson, a professional, anticipated my questions so well that he stayed two notebook pages ahead of me most...
...called him 'Hot'-he was always fired up-but he never liked it; so when he got away to Annapolis, he wrote me right away: 'Dear Gloria, Please do not call me "Hot" and please do not write to me on lined notebook paper with pencil.' " That she and her mother laugh long at the memory is one more piece of the story they tell-a healthy piece. For anyone who sat out the parched family pieties of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon years, the sound of home laughter that laps all sides of Jimmy Carter...