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...best mayors in U.S. history have been great characters--showmen and radicals and bullies and rebels. Then again, so have the worst. Fiorello LaGuardia, who ruled New York from 1934 to '45, besides reforming and rebuilding his city, was famous for smashing slot machines with a sledgehammer and reading the comics to children over the radio during a newspaper strike. On the other hand, Chicago's William (Big Bill) Thompson, first elected in 1915, kept a picture of his good buddy Al Capone on his office wall and once conducted a debate between himself and two white rats, which...
...strategy wisely used by CBS for one of its news shows. That program spent its early years in the ratings cellar. At one point, the show was preempted to make room for football games. Only in 1975, seven years after its debut, did perseverance (and a regular Sunday time slot) pay off and the program begin to blossom in the ratings. Its name, of course, is 60 Minutes. --By James Kelly
Sophomore Gideon Valkin leveled the match with a quick 6-1, 6-4 victory in the sixth singles slot, and Chu gave the Crimson the lead with his 6-4, 7-6 win—but Chiu dropped a heated three-set contest, and Dhaka would soon follow suit...
Despite a swollen knee, and despite not playing at all for essentially a calendar year, Klimkiewicz hit .317, led the Crimson in RBI (33), and was top-three in home runs (7) and slugging percentage (.558). He solidified a slot in the heart of the order—where he will hit again in 2005—and flashed glimpses of the person Walsh wanted and the player BB&N coach Rick Forestiere dubbed “the best high school hitter I’ve ever seen...
...Casey were denied a speaking slot because he was anti-choice, why weren’t the equally anti-abortion John Breaux, David Boren, Rich Daley, and five other anti-choice governors also prevented from speaking? As Mandy Grunwald, who produced Bill Clinton’s 1992 commercials, told me: “We said all you have to do is endorse our party’s candidate for president, and [Bob Casey] refused, and that was it….There was no abortion litmus-test...