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...fireworks display, was involved in another debacle in recent years, when he let Phil Niekro go to the Yankees, and then proceded to try to lure him back once he shone in the Big Apple. (Turner ended up settling for a statue of Neikro). Knucksie is also the oldest current major leaguer, having just celebrated another birthday on April 1. Five points if you can name Phil's exact age, and five more if you can identify the only player on the list below who is older than Niekro...
Reagan has addressed veterans, farmers, astronauts, high schools and more backwater fundamentalist meetings than Rev. Ernest Angely. But will he talk to America's oldest center of higher education? Is it really impossible for Reagan to schedule a day for us in between visits to Camp David and Rancho Cielo...
...family. J. Paul's five marriages produced five sons. Only two, Jean Paul Jr. and Gordon Peter, were full brothers. How much one can blame a father for the fate of his children is uncertain, though Getty's absenteeism and disparaging attitude toward his sons were not helpful. The oldest, George F. II, a president of Tidewater Oil, died an apparent suicide in 1973. Jean Ronald, born to a German mother in 1929, left the family oil business to produce a few minor films like Flare-up with Ursula Andress, and claims that "the only thing I inherited from...
...oldest document in the exhibition is a 1775 proclamation by King George III urging the colonies to engage in "Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition." Other graphic entreaties were more persuasive. One from 1880 exhorts settlers to move into "Indian Territory, That Garden of the World, Open for Homestead." A health campaign from the 1940s warns, "Syphilis Keep Out!" Meanwhile, another broadside urges Americans to eat a balanced diet to "Make America Strong...
...immigrant hegira": first the densely packed tenements of the Lower East Side, later the wide open spaces of the Bronx, where her household is a turnstile of transient relatives. Simon's father plugs along in the shoe-design business and resents the energy and inquisitiveness of his wife and oldest daughter. Kate learns early that men can be a primary cause of pain and guilt...