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...COSA? headlined the impish New York Daily News, and the thought alone was enough to appall the millions who have admired Bob Cousy, 39, onetime basketball superstar with the Boston Celtics and now coach at Boston College. The question arose from an article in LIFE tying Cousy to a Springfield, Mass., saloon owner and syndicate gambler named Andrew Pradella. In an emotional, 70-minute press conference, Cousy choked and sobbed as he admitted that he had known Pradella well for 13 years, had played golf with him and seen him socially. He had learned for the first time of Pradella...
...family to New York. By Hal's fifth birthday, his parents were separated. Mother, who remains a major influence in his life (Geneen's father is now dead), sent him to a succession of boarding schools and summer camps. At Suffield (Conn.) School, the older boys got Springfield rifles for military drill while the younger ones got only wooden ones. "So there I was," he recalls, "the smallest kid in the school, carrying my little wooden rifle with one hand, and trying to keep my puttees up with the other...
...Beer. An islander of Chinese-Portuguese-German-Dutch ancestry, Don grew up on the other side of the mountains from Honolulu in Kaneohe, where his parents ran a neon cocktail lounge called Honey's. A top high school athlete, he won a scholarship to Springfield (Mass.) College. But after a homesick year, he finished up at the University of Hawaii (sociology), then spent five years as an Air Force pilot. "When I realized I'd never get to be a general," he says, "I resigned my commission and came home to run Honey's. Business...
...Green Power." Today the league has affiliates in 84 cities, from San Diego to Springfield, Mass., Tampa, Fla., to Seattle. The budget has mushroomed to $3.5 million, while some 8,800 paid and volunteer league staffers administer foundation-and Government-funded projects that cost another $20 million...
Before the wreckage of the fallen planes had stopped smoldering, John Reed, director of the National Transportation Safety Board, led a team of 68 investigators to the scene. Why was the private plane, carrying two Springfield, Mo., businessmen and flown by Veteran Pilot David Addison of Lebanon, Mo., twelve miles off course at the time of the collision? When Addi son reached a point southeast of the Asheville-Hendersonville Airport, he had been instructed to turn north, then report in for final landing instructions...