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Enter as well the office of famous ornithologist and "certified genius" Earl Weaver, the plucky, gravelly voiced helmsman of the Orioles. Doting on every word dropped from the month of that philosopherking, we learn why indeed the Orioles win more games than anybody else: fundamentals. We learn the basic offensive strategy at the heart of the Birds' success--the Big Bang theory of Killer Innings. And we find out the truth behind Boswell's assertion that Weaver (sorry, Sparky and Billy) is the best manager there is. Please don't scream at the author's unmistakable predilection for a certain...
Throughout Umpire Luciano himself is the only recurrent character, though his pet peeve. Baltimore Orioles Manager Earl Weaver comes close. They didn't get along on the field where relations deteriorated to the point that the league gave Luciano a short vacation whenever his crew visited Baltimore. But he can't help bringing up Weaver again and again, almost offering him symbolically as the exception that proves the rule that everybody in the league likes him. Of all the ejections he handed out over 11 years. Luciano has to be proudest of the one he give. Weaver during the warm...
...befits a variety show, A Prairie Home Companion has a little bit of everything, or everything that interests Keillor. There is a lot of music: bluegrass, folk, opera, jazz, blues, and visitors like Bill Staines, a yodeler, or Dr. Tom Weaver, who taps out the William Tell overture on his teeth. There are also letters from listeners and mock commercials. (The main "sponsor," Powdermilk Biscuits, promises to give shy people "the power to get up and do what needs to be done.") But the backbone of the program is Keillor's gravelly narration of the goings-on in Lake...
...Crystallization of Amorphous Systems and Formation and Properties of Amosphous Metallic Alloys David Turnbull $336,897 10/1/76-9/30/81 Division of Applied Sciences Biological Studies on Marine Boring and Fouling Mollusks R. D. Turner $218,210 10/1/75-12/30/81 MCZ A Componential Approach to Locating and Correcting Reading Disabilities of Young Adults Phyllis Weaver, Ann Kera $191,703 7/1/79-6/30/82 Arts and Sciences Life-History Studies on Fouling Bryozoans and Ascidians Robert Woollacott $198,410 10/1/77-9/30/81 MCZ Model Investigations of Lithosperic Propagation Tai Tsun Wu $135,750 4/1/79-10/31/81 Division of Applied Sciences
...January in Los Gatos, Calif., to market Filewriter, a program priced at $9.95 that can alphabetize lists on Apple computers. Despite three classified ads in computer magazine, no products have yet been sold. But that has not discouraged the company's founders: Steve Grimm, age 12, and Nikolai Weaver age 11. -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco