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...fans, the last week has been hell. Nature's droppings paralyzed Harvard right in the middle of the week, leaving us with no excuse to sleep all day. Worse yet, the tube, our hallowed shrine, has been useless. Empty. Boring. Not even Sports Challenge or Roller Derby. Even the most dedicated armchair beer guzzler can't call As The World Turns sports...
...highlight of each year came when Steve and his friends drove the 90 miles to Billings where they stayed at the Dude Ranch Lodge before watching the state high school basketball championships in Shrine Auditorium. Irion says with his droll sense of humor that smacks of the prairie, "Billings seemed so big. It seemed like hours before we got to the 'Shrine...
...Club for a quick round while living in Hoffman Estates. Irion's home in Illinois was only five minutes away from the Medinah golf club where the 1975 U.S. Open was held. Medinah was built by the Shriners, members of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The course features a resplendent mock Moorish clubhouse and is laid out around Lake Kadijah, named after Mohammed's wife. In fact, those same Shriners are responsible for building that nondescript arena in Billings where Steve Irion used to go to watch the Montana state basketball finals...
...these huzzas was Rumania's diminutive dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, who turned 60 last week amid trumpetings of praise not heard in the East bloc since Stalin's day. Congratulatory telegrams poured into the Palace of the Republic in Bucharest. Busts and portraits were unveiled. A shrine was being built at his birthplace, in the farm village of Scornicesti. A special exhibition of 60 books on Ceauşescu from 30 countries opened in the capital. Moscow conferred the Lenin Prize, East Germany sent the Order of Karl Marx, and the Rumanian Academy of Political and Economic...
...same day Kuhn cancelled the Blue deal, the Committee on Veterans elected Larry MacPhail and pitcher Adrian Joss to the Hall of Fame. Both will be inducted posthumously into the hallowed shrine at Cooperstown...