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...wasn?t just that he left us hanging that hardened the city against him. It wasn?t merely bruised pride. It was his utter lack of civility, his cursory attention to team dynamics, his outspoken disdain for Pittsburgh and its fans that turned me against him. He was cold and downright mean - a far cry from players like Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski, whose names still elicit a misty tear or two from die-hard Bucs fans...
...weakest U.S. economy in a decade limps into fall, there?s at least one American consumer that economists won?t have to worry about: Pittsburgh resident Kathleen Kearney, who had her country in mind Thursday when she claimed $73.7 million in Powerball winnings. "I guess we'll help the economy somewhat," she said...
...author sketches with which Welles often introduced the evening?s story. Note the confident scholarship - the mixture of history and an-ecdote, the oral eyebrow raised at "establishments," the almost sexual acceleration of subsidiary phrases, the assumption that listeners will know who Reubens was, the "?tis" and the "Pittsburgh" - in this honey of an intro, written by Houseman for "The Count of Monte Cristo...
...build with his own hands his own pyramids. But the mere blueprint of one Dumas plot is an airtight alibi for a whole career. Of all these, out of question the most gloriously complex, possibly the most impossible, a mathematical miracle, as perfect as watchworks and as big as Pittsburgh, among hundreds one Dumas plot persists as the most ingenious tall story ever perpetrated by the mind of man, God's vengeance on radio scriptwriters, and your indestructible delight in spite of us. Here then is a humble 57 mins.' worth of 'The Count of Monte Cristo...
Peterman has targeted that niche since the mid-1960s, when he hung up his baseball glove after three years as a minor-league second baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He bounced from one sales-management job to another for employers such as General Foods and Dole. In 1984 he started a business that diagnosed the problems of sick house plants by mail and wangled his first bit of free publicity when he appeared on Good Morning America to promote it. That company soon wilted (Was there an omen there regarding free p.r.?), forcing him to look for something else...