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...Georgie's baseball investments are paying off about as well as his contribution to Nixon did. Don Gullet couldn't beat a Little League team from Taiwan much less anyone else. Catfish Hunter reinjured himself yesterday; team physician Yess Eimequack said that Hunter sprained his face while chewing tobacco in the bullpen. Catfish is out indefinitely and may be placed on the 21-day, "I'll see ya later" list...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Of Shoes, and Ships, and Sealing Wax | 5/24/1977 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Brandeis beat Harvard yesterday to raise its record to 19-2 and that team is going to (get this) the Division THREE playoffs. Pardon me while I swallow my wad of chewing tobacco...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Rough in the Diamond | 5/17/1977 | See Source »

...their claims. For example, will the Pequot Indians return to the Niantic Indians the lands they stole in the early 17th century? Will the Pawnee return the lands they stole from the Sioux and Cheyenne? Will the Iroquois return all the land they stole from the Huron, the Tobacco, the Erie, the Conestoga and the Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1977 | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...Tobacco Road--Channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: April 21--April 27 | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

Costakis, nearing his 65th birthday in July, is the son of a Greek tobacco merchant who moved to Moscow before the revolution. He started his collection in 1948 by buying antique Russian silver and paintings by conventional artists. He soon tired of that and shifted to the avantgarde. He had very little money. Even today he earns no more than $8,500 a year as an administrative officer in charge of Russian employees at Moscow's Canadian Embassy. But in the beginning, he recalls, "this kind of art -including Chagall and Kandinsky -was selling at a very low price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Momentous Happening in Moscow | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

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