Word: budding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...backwoods, off-the-map hamlet that he calls Hobe's Hill, Agee and Evans lived with a tenant farmer named George Gudger, made frequent side visits to the ramshackle farms of Fred Ricketts and Bud Woods. Tennessee-born Jim Agee felt the call of blood as well as the vast bond of compassion, since his father's people had come down from the hills back of Knoxville. But Agee also felt that he was an alien and a spy, prying into the lives of an "undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings." He tried to find...
Founder Johnson has turned the presidency over to his 28-year-old son, Howard Brennan ("Bud") Johnson, but he continues to run the show. He cruises' the highways in a chauffeured black Cadillac bearing the license plate HJ-28 (for the number of his ice-cream flavors) and a silvery replica of his soft-sell characters, Simple Simon and the Pieman, on the hood. He discovers half a dozen new restaurant and motel sites a year, claims that the success of his rapidly spreading motels is due to the fact that he builds them on sites that seem...
...Secret: Sympathy. To supply these needs, Bud Hillerich has learned to combine the persistence of a bleacher heckler with the sympathy of a wife. When it comes to bats, he has discovered, ballplayers are as sensitive as violinists. He follows the major league teams with the vigilance of a scout, roams across the U.S. chatting about bats in dugouts and dressing rooms. When Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra complained that he was not getting enough power out of his bats, Hillerich checked up, found that Berra had an unconscious habit of turning the trademark toward the ball, thus hitting against...
Built-in Hits. Bud Hillerich's father was an apprentice in his father's small wood-turning shop one day in 1884 when a local ballplayer, Pete ("Old Gladiator") Browning, broke his bat. Young Hillerich offered to make Browning a new one. The next day Old Gladiator rapped out three hits. Ballplayers figured that young Hillerich made bats with hits in them, rushed to place orders. By 1904 John Sr. was a full partner in the firm. He started an advertising trend by getting famous players to endorse his bats, wrested the professional bat market away from front...
...junior and industrial baseball has pushed sales up 30% in the past ten years. H. & B. expects to be producing 5,000,000 bats by 1962 or 1963. Though the family-owned company keeps its profit figures to itself, they are hefty enough to keep a spacious box for Bud Hillerich at Churchill Downs, where he likes to get away from it all by sizing up thoroughbreds instead of sluggers...