Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last fall Bilandic had looked unbeatable. An easy-going type who constantly sang Chicago's praises, he staged a successful summer festival along the lakefront that attracted hundreds of thousands of fun seekers. He married a svelte socialite, Heather Morgan, and played the proud host to President Jimmy Carter, who slept in the mayor's house...
...plot is wafer thin. Henry Williams (Charles Repole) is slight in stature but huge in hypochondria, and so full of pills that when he sneezes "people around me get cured." By happenstance, Henry extricates Sally Morgan, a coy maiden winsomely played by Beth Austin, from the maritally-minded clutches of Sheriff Bob (J. Kevin Scannell), a sage brush Keystone Kop. Sally's true love is Hiawatha, or rather, Wanenis (Franc Luz), a noble North American savage from red-blooded Dartmouth. She gets him, and after a number of featherbrained misadventures, Henry finds perfect health and pneumatic bliss...
...time natives of Key West -such as Harry Morgan, Hemingway's one-armed rumrunner, who was played by Humphrey Bogart in the movie -are known as Conchs, after the crusty mollusks that abound off that southernmost Florida island. Like Morgan, they are given to drinking in seedy bars, fishing in the Gulf Stream and insulting tourists. Nowadays the tide of tourism is enough to make the Harry Morgans pull up anchor and put out to sea. The place known affectionately as "the Last Resort" is fashionable again...
Hopkins, led by second-year coach Tim Welsh, features a strong breaststroke crew, led by Bill Smiddy and John Blank, and possesses several formidable freestylers and individual medleyists, the strongest of whom is Stanley Morgan...
Facing black community protest, Rhoades last summer fired Officer Peter F. Morgan for fatally shooting an unarmed black shoplifting suspect the previous Christmas Eve. The following week the county police union gave Rhoades a unanimous vote of no-confidence...