Word: rods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles of a play written by a man named A.E. Hotchner, a television writer and close personal friend of Ernest Hemingway's Hotchner's play attempted to string together several Hemingway short stories to dramatize the life of the Nobel prize winning author. Despite the help of Rod Steiger in the lead role, the play did not succeed and Hunter came away from the performance feeling the fault was in the "bio play" format of the work. Hunter explains. "Such plays follow the chronology line of a person's life and present the essence of the main character...
...another in the Santa Monica, Calif., surf. Even the lowly dogfish, the spaniel of the seas but a shark just the same, is suspected of homicidal intentions. "Kill it, kill it," urged a Long Island angler to his companion dangling a 2-ft.-long, almost toothless fish from his rod, "before it grows up to kill...
...from a quick but unbrilliant career with Pawtucket, is having a sensational, sensational year. He is leading the league in RBIs and leading the majors in run production--RBIs plus runs, minus the homers, which are duplicates. He is fourth in homers and number two in batting average, behind Rod Carew--which is like running second to Hermes. He handles centerfield like a fish in water and he runs the bases like a pro. In late June he knocked in ten runs in one outing against Detroit, and made headlines on every sports page in the country. Earlier...
...what count, but most of his purchases become gifts. His U.S. agent has received a Rolls-Royce, his secretary a $2,300 raccoon coat. His manager got an $80,000 yacht and a $10,000 Faberge clock. Elton sent a Rembrandt etching of The Adoration of the Shepherds to Rod Stewart's 30th birthday party...
...Died. Rod Serling, 50, television and motion-picture writer and creator of the supernaturally spooky series Twilight Zone; of a heart attack; in Rochester, N.Y. After a grueling apprenticeship as a freelance scriptwriter, Serling went on to write Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight and other major television plays, earning six Emmy awards, more than any other writer...