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Make no bones about it. The Los Angeles Rams are one big battling family. Appearing in their first Super Bowl after 14 years as the league's perennial bridegrooms, the Rams are a motley crew presided over by a beautiful and stubborn widow who fired her stepson, hinted of plans to unload her coach and outraged her players. The Steelers, as befits the defending Super Bowl champions, sailed through their season like a proud flagship; the Rams endured the football equivalent of a voyage on the Bounty...
...feud got rough just after the exhibition season began. Georgia called her stepson in and, with a lawyer on hand to back her up, fired him. Said Steve later: "I knew the handwriting was on the wall when my father died...
Irene Baker, describing the politics of Stepson Howard Baker Jr., Senate minority leader: "Like the Tennessee River, he flows right down the middle...
After being paroled in 1974, Galante took over control of the Mafia family once run by Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, who retired to Tucson, Ariz., in 1964. At first, Interim Boss Philip Rastelli was unwilling to step aside. Gunmen killed his stepson, James Fernandes, on a Brooklyn street. Rastelli...
Determined that Sullivan's name-dropping needlepoint should go on, Angell combed the year's headlines for worthy toastees, borrowed (like Sullivan) a few names from friends and wove them into Sullivanian tetrameter. Angell-a short-story writer, bestselling baseball author (The Summer Game) and stepson of E.B. White-aims good cheer at "Helmut Schmidt, Kenneth Tynan/ And the Rev. Rep. (D., Mass.) Robert Drinan, " and offers "A puppy each for Stacy Reach/ And Marvellous Nadia Comaneci." He exhorts: "Come, Willie Morris! Come, Maury Wills/ Make with the tonsils for Beverly Sills, "and wishes that "the new year...