Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real doctorate in communications at Michigan State University, he found himself feeling less than charitable each June as he read about such instant academics as Dr. Captain Kangaroo, Dr.Bob Hope and the late Dr. Dario Toffenetti, a Manhattan restaurateur honored by the University of Idaho for "promoting . . . the Idaho potato...
...inner conflict of the American Church has curiously been played out in the Berrigans' own lives. Sons of a working-class Irishman whose parents migrated to America to escape the potato famine, the young Berrigans were torn between conflicting aspects of their own background. On the one hand, there was the immigrant's desire to prove himself a loyal American, combined with the Catholic's tendency to play the staunch, conservative counterpart to the renegade, insurgent Protestant tradition in which America was founded. On the other hand is the fact that their father, Tom Berrigan, was a progressive...
Died. Donald F. Duncan, 78, popularizer of Yo-Yos and parking meters; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When he first saw Filipino immigrants playing with a crude toy in the late 1920s, Duncan was not impressed: "It looked like nothing, like a potato on a string." So he devised a slip string that let the wooden "potato" spin, registered the name Yo-Yo and embarked on a high-power promotion campaign. Youngsters looped the loop to the tune of up to $7,000,000 annually in sales for Duncan. Although he made another fortune by manufacturing parking meters, Duncan...
...distracted her, Roscoe said, the other two removed the 18-inch, 50-pound bust from its pedestal and placed it in a green book bag. Before she realized what had happened, he added, the men had left. In place of the bust, the secretary discovered a large potato, decorated to look like a man, sitting on top of a black...
Roscoe said the secretary could "positively identify" the thieves from photographs. The police lab has already examined the potato man and the black box for fingerprints, he said...