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...into the merchandising business." As in the majors, the minor-league clubs started ball, hat, bat and sweatband nights. Then the farm teams added a few gimmicks all their own. Several clubs offer home-plate weddings to their fans. Anyone attending a Birmingham Barons game can order a birthday cake brought to his seat and watch his name being flashed on the electronic scoreboard. The El Paso Diablos give away used cars -- after shooting off smoke bombs inside them. At a recent Buffalo Bisons game, the crowd watched a figure skater do her act on a plastic sheet atop...
Dukakis has forced Bush to rethink his Southern strategy. It's bad enough that Bush has to work for the Southern vote, but now he has to campaign in Texas--a state that he thought was going to be a piece of cake. Now, Bentsen has taken a large slice out of that cake...
...flowers every spring, with a glowing white fragrance that attracts the inquiries of the honeybee. Once its leaves are out, it provides shelter for the larks and thrushes that sing from its branches. In due time, the fading flowers turn into apples, offering a thousand fulfillments: apple pie, apple cake, applesauce, apple cider, apple butter, apple jelly, apple dumplings, apple tarts, apple pandowdy. Cut into pieces, the apple tree can be carpentered into a table, or at the least its kindlings will give off a splendid flame. Left quite alone, the tree will blossom white again next spring...
...soon graduated to the Canadian nightclub circuit, where as the Great Randall he performed routine acts of legerdemain. One night after his show, a policeman jokingly clapped a pair of cuffs on him and dared him to escape. Piece of cake. "I walked into the open door of a squad car and got out the other side with the cuffs off." Chagrined, the police challenged him to break out of a locked jail cell. He did, easily, and the next day a local newspaper carried a story headlined THE AMAZING RANDI ESCAPES FROM QUEBEC PRISON. "From that moment...
...keep my children busy," she explains. "I started with a small group of kids and asked people in the neighborhood if we could mow their lawns or pick up their garbage or go to the store for senior citizens." Her fee for these services: "A pie or a cake" for the kids, she says. "Some people just gave us Kool...