Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other building materials. Howe now admits that she in fact received the goods from Somerville Lumber after ordering them. But in sworn testimony "signed under the pains and penalties of perjury," Howe denied ever receiving the building materials. The case was eventually settled out of court. Somerville Lumber owner Harold Cohen refused to talk about the suit, apparently fearing retribution by the Howe family. "I admit it," he said. "I'm a coward...
...would have his troubles when he took the job. He inherited a team that had won 42 and lost 27 in the previous five years, a winner but a peculiarly brittle one with a tendency to snap around play-off time. Many of the regulars were also feuding with Owner Bill Bidwill, whom they accused of penny pinching. Terry Metcalf, the team's star running back and its sole threat to the outside, had played out his option and gone off to the Toronto Argonauts...
...despite the Cardinals' record, Wilkinson has also retained the backing of Owner Bidwill and the team's fans. Indeed, in a strange inversion of custom, the fans have taken to booing the owner and wearing TRADE BIDWILL buttons. But if St. Louis continues to lose, Wilkinson knows the fans will eventually turn on him, as they do on all losing coaches...
...Kroc, McDonald's Senior Chairman, in Tokyo to open stand No. 5,000, on his other role as owner of the San Diego Padres: "The club is a helluva lot of fun, like my wife, but there's no profit in either...
...Collection (Oct. 25, PBS, 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Not terribly much happens during this hour-long play by Harold Pinter. Phones ring at odd times of night. A London boutique owner unexpectedly drops in on a dress designer who lives in a baroque town house down the road. Two men almost stage a duel with delicate cheese knives. A husband fears that his wife may have had an affair in a hotel room in Leeds. Not much happens during The Collection, but by the time the play is over at least three lives have been shattered. That's the wonder...