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...eggplant parmagiana. The local police force features a sentimental cop, name of 'Ankles,' because he keeps the peace by kicking transgressors in the ankles with his size 14's. This is, after all, what you'd expect; Hamill is, as they say at Aqueduct, out of Breslin by brother Pete Hamill, the barroom columnist for a "newspaper" called the New York Post...
Letters fill large chunks of Easy Riders. A true classic, reprinted here in its entirely, came from Pete Chambly, Quebec, Canada: "I'm typing this letter because I can't write for shit." A testimony on behalf of children comes from "The Widow," a native of Salisbury, Md. "This is to all you outlaws who think rugrats are a hassle. Kids are the only way to keep our lives free! We've got to teach our babies about love and brotherhood. We've got to make them proud to be scooter people...
...candy money on music books but figured that the future would be brighter if he followed a more practical bent. He thought about dentistry, considered electrical engineering, "but between high school and college I met Berry Gordy." Smokey and four cronies from Detroit's North End-Warren Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, Ron White and Claudette Rogers-formed the Miracles, and Smokey left college during the first semester. The name of the debut Miracles single could have been a proud rebuke to guidance counselors everywhere...
...quasi records: Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies walked and then stole his way around the bases a few games ago, becoming the first National League player to do that since Harvey Hendrick of Brooklyn...
...days after the loss to Princeton, which dropped the Crimson from seventh to tenth in the national rankings, the squad scored its first victory ever on UMass turf. When All-American middie Pete Predun found himself double-teamed by the Minutemen, he cooly pulled his defenders away from the cage and allowed frosh superstar Brendan Meagher to pick up the slack and pace the Laxmen...