Word: toms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that company. I don't know too much about what happened to Dennis Rinehart and Tom Curley; I do know about what I did, and about those parts of the training that everyone went through. For example, sales school; I too slept on the steps of the auditorium early one morning. The temperature was about 78 degrees; there were interesting people to talk to when I woke up; I was not at all uncomfortable. As another example, take housing. The company instructed, in sales school, how to find a place to live; we had two full pages of suggestions...
...passed from the scene, but the newspapers of the South are probably better than ever. More and more Dixie dailies are starting to cover national news seriously, commit money and staff to investigative reporting and pay their talent well enough to halt its traditional northward migration. Among prominent defectors: Tom Wicker and Clifton Daniel of the New York Times, David Brinkley of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS. Five Southern newspapers best exemplify the new stirring in Southern journalism. They are, in alphabetical order...
...giant of a man, but he conspicuously avoids throwing his weight around. His background might well have produced a dyed-in-the-cot-ton supporter of the status quo instead of a reformer. Heflins have been in the state for six generations; the judge's late uncle, Cotton Tom Heflin, a populist turned black-baiting U.S. Senator (1920-31), was drummed out of the Democratic Party in 1928 for attacking Presidential Nominee Al Smith as "the Roman candidate." Young Howell went to Birmingham Southern College, served as a Marine officer in World War II and still has a stiff...
Lettermen Mike Benninger and Bob Gantley return at guard, but sophomore Mike Clark has mounted a strong challenge to Gantley on the left side. Mike Rubenstein and Reid Cocalis are also possibilities, while Larry Spagnola, with help from Tom Shea, will take care of the center's duties...
...linebacking spots is set with Tom Joyce, whom Restic terms as "outstanding." Joyce, who is also captain of next spring's baseball team, was particularly outstanding in last fall's demolition of Brown, when he was selected the ABC-TV Defensive Player of the Game. Playing alongside Joyce will be either Joe Jason, Joe Goodreault, if he recovers from a preseason injury, or sophomore Craig Beling...