Word: toms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever alert for new fields to plow, negligence lawyers have slapped malpractice suits on doctors, hospitals, even fellow lawyers. But they have long left virtually unfilled what could, theoretically, prove the most fertile field of all-malpractice suits by children against their own parents. Now one Tom Hansen, 24, of Boulder, Colo., is bringing what may be called a "serpent's tooth suit"* against his mother and father...
...Tom Wicker...
Spiro Agnew, in his days as chief White House press scourge, once called Tom Wicker "the boy wonder of opinion makers." Half right. Though his New York Times columns can be pearls of persuasive good sense, Wicker is hardly a Wunderkind. At 51, he has been a foot soldier in the service of truth, newspaper division, for nearly three decades. He has risen from the Sandhill Citizen of Aberdeen, N.C.-a backwoods weekly for which he sold ads, laid out pages and, incidentally, covered the news. He has been a White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief, columnist and bestselling author...
Here is young Tom as sports editor of the Lumberton, N.C., daily in pre-Warren Court days, confronted by a war party of angry local baseball players after he had accidentally desegregated the box scores. Here he is, older but unbowed, battling with the Times's infamous New York editors, one of whom once interrupted him on a presidential trip to demand a reconciliation between his story and the Associated Press version. Wicker shot back: "My story's right and anyway, I just left the A.P. It's down in the bar, drunk." He inks an indelible...
...Whose bloop single with one out in the ninth broke up Tom Seaver's perfect game against the Cubs in July...