Word: douglass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, reflects that innocent era before AstroTurf, designated hitters and utility infielders with multimillion-dollar contracts. But every middle-aged baseball fan can still appreciate the Faustian temptation at the core of both the novel and the hit Broadway musical it inspired, Damn Yankees. Joe Boyd is a paunchy real estate salesman condemned to root for his hapless hometown team, the now defunct Washington Senators. The devil, who prefers the moniker Applegate, offers to transform Joe into the greatest slugger in the history of the game. Applegate's price...
When New York State Supreme Court Justice Lewis Douglass sent convicted Drug Dealer Agapito Lopez up the river to prison last year, he noted that $440,000 had been found in Lopez's Brooklyn apartment. That was merely cash on hand: in addition, the district attorney's office claims, Lopez owns three houses in New York, a car dealership, and several apartments in his native Puerto Rico. Last week Judge Douglass decided to redistribute some of Lopez's assets. He ordered the dealer to hand over more than $2 million in restitution to New York City's drug-rehabilitation programs...
...trees for nourishment and killing small branches by laying eggs in them. They also mess up lawns with their 2-in.-long bodies. Vulnerable sapling oaks and fruit trees can easily be protected with a covering of cheesecloth. "They're more of a nuisance than anything else," says Douglass Miller, an entomologist with the Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md. "They do less damage than a good pruning...
...alone in thinking her mentally disturbed. In 1982 a District of Columbia judge appointed Douglass's brother and sister conservators of her affairs on the ground that, among other things, she "had acquired a romantic and unreasonable fixation for the person of the Pope." According to court documents, she once tried to become the Pontiff's helicopter pilot and attempted to purchase Rolls-Royces...
...Douglass sits in the bungalow's tiny kitchen and talks about hiring a barrister, Sir Rudolf stares into the distance and seems happy enough. He calls her "Carroll sweetheart" but usually talks only when prompted by her, saying a few lucid words before sliding again into a kind of dreamy trance. Sir Rudolf may not be in Anguilla after all, but back home at the Met, savoring a favorite performance of La Traviata or something he said to Maria Callas...