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Some players sign autographs for youngsters, while others play practical jokes on their teammates. It takes one pitcher several innings to realize that someone has stuck a wad of used bubble gum on the top of his shoe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Payne Park Not Quite the Bigs | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

...Ever since the weather got warm," said Karl Berberick of the Golden Temple shoe store, "business has skyrocketed. Last Saturday was like a riot...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Square Shops Bask in Balminess | 4/8/1986 | See Source »

...spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning off my shoe...

Author: By Robert A. Katz, | Title: The Origin of Feces | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

...Yard pedestrians--be reassigned to the dog owners. I propose that those who operate these compact waste factories incur the full costs of their activity by contributing to a University "Superfund." With this money, Harvard could hire clean-up crews, as well as reimburse students for dry cleaning bills, shoe shines, and Lysol...

Author: By Robert A. Katz, | Title: The Origin of Feces | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

...Tucker said, "I have been rich, and I have been poor. Rich is better." Of course it is, especially when spring arrives and the IRS closes in. But when most people imagine what life would be like after winning the lottery, they do not come up with 5,400 shoes. The methodical analyst switches on his calculator. If Imelda Marcos changed her shoes three times a day, and never wore the same pair twice, it would take her more than two years and five months to work through her shoe supply--as it existed on the day she fled Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Shoes of Imelda Marcos | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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