Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claimed from even an unsuccessful suit. "Sharon got the jury saying TIME lied about him," said Robert Comstock, editor of New Jersey's Bergen County Record. "I think there are other officials who would like to have a jury say that too." To Eugene Roberts, executive editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "it was clearly a political suit." The trend toward such suits, he said, amounts to "open season on freedom of expression." Abrams, however, predicted that TIME's ultimate victory would cause public officials to "think twice" before launching libel suits, "because they may lose on actual malice...
...Paul Brown, Walsh had heard tell of a crisp pep talk delivered by the Cleveland Browns coach on opening day of 1950, when the survivors of the disbanded All-America Football Conference were being called amateurs unfit to share a field with the great N.F.L. champion Philadelphia Eagles. "Just think," Brown said drily, "in a minute you'll get to touch Steve Van Buren." Cleveland 35, Philadelphia...
...freshman Bill Mohler's foot in practice. He stretched some ligaments in his right ankle and has been out of commission since. Lucklily for Harvard, he's expected to be back soon. The 5307 fans that saw the Penn-Harvard game two weekends ago at the Palestra in Philadelphia were more than Harvard had played in front of in its 10 previous games combined...
...were his ambitions. Called back to New York in 1960 after managing the Philadelphia branch office for five years, he sought and won authority to open a long-range planning section that laid the groundwork for transforming Merrill Lynch from a chain of brokerage offices into an enormous financial supermarket, complete with insurance, real estate and savings services. As a result, Merrill Lynch was able to breeze past the collapse of the '60s go-go market and, as the deregulation era dawned, to become a serious contender for retail-banking customers. Asked in 1979 to describe the financial institution...
...plane and having checked freshman Eric Wanta's too- large luggage, the team took off an hour late, then endured a perilous 90-minute van ride on the snow-covered New Jersey highways to Princeton- minus Wanta's luggage, which did turn up in time for the trip to Philadelphia...