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...Iowa Senator Harold Hughes, and an unexpected dark-horse entry, Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris. Assessing his chances recently, Harris noted that he must do well in the early primaries, then "get close to the top two in the polls." The top two by then? Ed Muskie, of course. And? "Scoop Jackson...
...fierce-and sometimes violent. Today's newspaper battle is less bloody but scarcely less frantic. Circulation campaigns are fought with radio and TV spots instead of hired toughs, and an exclusive is more often a series of sober public service articles about mental health than a blaring bannerline scoop about a trunk murder. But Chicago remains the only U.S. city with competing papers in both morning and afternoon...
...puts out a line, patiently lights a pipe, and within two hours has landed a respectable catch. Mussolini jumps into the water and grabs a fat pike. Hitler orders the pond drained. As the fish flop about helplessly on the bottom, Chamberlain asks Hitler: "Why don't you scoop them up?" Hitler replies: "They have to beg me first...
...Lakes Country Club. In between was a fence, and little Lee was soon turning a tidy profit on that happy coincidence ?collecting balls that sailed over the fence and selling them back to club members. Expanding his business, he welded two rake handles together, fashioned a chicken-wire scoop on one end, and went fishing for more strays in the water hazards. "I cleared maybe $10 a day," he recalls. When he was six, he found a discarded wooden-shafted No. 5 iron, sawed it down to size and began hitting horse apples. Bored with make-believe, he eventually...
...Cream Cohen, like other B.R. owners, had to put up about $30,000 for his franchise. His store sells upwards of $100,000 a year in one-scoop (25?) and two-scoop (45?) cones, hand-packed cartons (75? a pint) and other goodies...