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...At the Philadelphia??Eagles' practice complex one day last week, the producer of quarterback Donovan McNabb's weekly local TV show asked if he would be available for an interview a day before Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Fla. With mock seriousness, McNabb warned that the hoopla of the game, between the Eagles and defending champion New England Patriots, might leave him stretched for time. "Worst case, just get some guy off the street in Jacksonville to go on," McNabb joked. He then found a problem with that plan. "The guy would say, 'Donovan who? A quarterback? You mean...
Pennsylvania is really three states. Philadelphia??is part of the liberal Northeast, Pittsburgh is Midwestern, and the center of the state is rural and conservative. Philly could be the key: Kerry needs to win by a big margin by turning out 35,000 newly registered voters. He will also try to win the Pittsburgh area. Bush will try to prevail in the Philly suburbs. He's even courting the Amish...
...Philadelphia???stocks, real estate loans...
...William Wrigley Jr. that Rogers Hornsby would take his place next year. "I must have a winner," said Owner Wrigley, who was less disgruntled by the showing of his team this season than by their failure to beat the Athletics in the last world series. In Shibe Park in Philadelphia???home of Connie Mack's Athletics, who had been sure of the American League pennant for many weeks?electricians were getting ready for the world series by installing the telegraph master- switchboard that was used in the Hall-Mills murder trial (TIME...
...Navy's first accidents in fiscal 1931 occurred last week at Philadelphia???a freak crackup. Three flyers took off in a Martin bomber for parachute tests, with 200-lb. dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...