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Robbing trains and stirring up trouble, he is known as Kid Blue. But when he gets fed up with a bandit's life, he uses his proper name, Bickford Waner. Bickford (Dennis Hopper) leaves his outlaw ways behind him and heads down the trail to Dime Box, Texas, where he puts up at the boardinghouse and lands a job sweeping out the barbershop. Polishing shoes or eating supper with the other boarders, though, Bickford just seems to stir people up. "You got no respect, boy," a shoe salesman (Ralph Waite) informs him one evening. "What am I supposed...
...forced to find a sacri ficial lamb. Last week the lamb was ritually slaughtered as Daley, 64, walked off with his fourth term by a margin of more than half a million votes. The mayor racked up 789,163-73% of the total ballots cast - while his opponent, John Waner, a prosperous, self-made heating contractor, tallied 272,955. Even in the Negro wards, from which the Democrats feared a strong protest vote, Daley outdrew Waner...
...lopsided outcome had been all but preordained. Waner, 52, a diligent, longtime Republican precinct captain, was little known to the public. He re mained all but unrecognized this year as he funneled $100,000 of his own money into a woefully underfunded campaign...
...Polish immigrants, Waner (ne Jan Wojnarowski) confessed at one point: "My English ain't so good. I didn't learn it until I was nine." Waner alienated Chicago's militant civil rights groups by opposing open housing, then blundered into a vow to fire Chicago's able Police Superintendent Orlando W. Wilson, whom he labeled a "$30,000-a-year con artist...
Died. Paul ("Big Poison") Waner, 62, one of baseball's greatest hitters, a bat-boy-sized (153 Ibs.) lefthander who went for singles, not homers, and in 20 years in the majors, 15 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, sprayed out 3,152 hits for a .333 average, before retiring in 1945 to occasional coaching jobs-and a niche in the Hall of Fame; of pulmonary emphysema; in Sarasota, Fla. The Big Poison nickname was to distinguish him from his brother and fellow Pirate Lloyd ("Little Poison"), whom he outweighed...