Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't have too much time to get too down about it, with the press calling and all, but I knew things might be difficult," Stenhouse says. With his father, Dave, a pitcher with the Washington Senators in the early '60's, acting as his agent, he began negotiations optimistically. "It could have been ideal," he says. "With a team like that, (the A's have been welded to last place in recent years) it could have been a quick way to get where I wanted." The majors...
Stenhouse's only hope before January is that Finley sells the A's to a less penurious owner with whom Mike could negotiate. According to an Associated Press report yesterday, the sale of the A's to Denver oilman Marvin Davis "may be completed by the end of the month...
Even so, Doland was not entirely overjoyed with his promotion. "I'll miss being out there, picking a blade of grass and putting it in my mouth," he told the Lake Charles American Press. "I'd rather have coached this year. But the board of regents told me to divest myself of the sideline duties as soon as possible." While his public candor was earning sympathetic chuckles, the McNeese Cowboys obligingly went out and won the first seven games of the season...
...Blotner's notes make clear, Faulkner accepted editorial quibbles and orders to revise or rewrite with little complaint; it comes as something of a surprise to watch the future Nobel laureate acceding to the demands of the popular press. As a result of such proddings, Faulkner's magazine stories were usually simpler, more straightforward and less resonant than his finest work. Reprinted in Uncollected Stories, these early versions inspire a sense of deja vu, for Faulkner frequently expanded and reshaped his published stories and inserted them in novels. A tale of his called The Bear appeared...
...hesitated to step into the fray, of course. When asked about possible names for his seventh child, he said he hadn't considered the name Kevin because it is synonymous with weakness. The senator has compared the mayor to a Tammany Hall leader and Richard Nixon. And the daily press conferences he's held to draw attention to himself have featured posters like that one that has White's photo next to "Wanted. The $89 Million Bandit," a.k.a. The Mayor...