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...Such poison! In 1959, the Yankee's third place finish inspired a hater to compose lovely verse. It was entitled, "To an ex-American League pennant winner...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Back in the Ballpark | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

...field to shove each other). Now you can go to see baseball played. Now you who hate the Yankees can go and hate in the old bitter and passionate and utterly unavenged way that you used to. It will do as much good now as it did them. Your poison is welcome. It means that at least for a moment the Yankees are the Yankees once more, and thanks...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Back in the Ballpark | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

...action to excoriation. When he noticed that the antidote on the labels of all wood-alcohol products was medically unsound and possibly fatal, he filed a successful petition with the Consumer Product Safety Commission for new labeling regulations. Two weeks ago Denenberg petitioned the commission to order all U.S. poison labels-some 50,000-rewritten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Horrible Herb Show | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...consumerism dominates his life: in his spare hours, he writes a weekly column for the Philadelphia Bulletin and is working on a book on health care. Says he: "My greatest satisfaction is keeping some kid from drinking poison or making some Government agency do what it's supposed to do. For relaxation I go out and read food labels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Horrible Herb Show | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...rise of the deejay was that he came much cheaper than the rock and rhythm-and-blues bands. Today there are so many deejays spinning vinyl that discotheque owners, to attract audiences, are starting to turn to the novelty of live groups. Says John Sassak, manager of the Poison Apple outside Detroit: "The attraction of discos now has to go beyond just music because every other guy has the same records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Enter the Disco Band | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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