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...Ronald Reagan "masterlily" delivered his convention address. Tiger lilies, yes. Water lilies, of course. But wonder of wonders, we also have master lilies. There just is no end to the joyous prolificacy of this lovely species...
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1974, he eschewed baseball for football after graduation, flirting briefly with a pro football career. In 1975 and 1975, Stoeckel traveled north to play for the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League--the very squad coached by Crimson gridder coach Joe Restic before he settled in Cambridge. The Ti-Cats in those days possessed a stellar quarterback by the name of Chuck Ealey...
...sitting behind me. George, who's better known as "Doctor Leopard" around Chicago, was yelling like a madman--so loud that I couldn't even hear the captain call the shots when the team was in place on the line of cribbage. So, even though it was Papa Tiger sitting behind me, I turned around and told him to pipe down. I mean, just because he is the Bears' team doctor, it doesn't give him a right to go around yelling at the top of his lungs so no one else can hear what's going on. But, then...
...social graces: "You might say it was a type of charm school." Buyers, many of them female, came from miles around to buy Pamorabilia and get her autograph (price: $2). Among the hottest items at the auction: oven timers, an electric vibrator pillow and a crushed-velvet tiger-striped bedspread with matching curtains. The sale netted several thousand dollars...
Well, George, who's known as "Grandpa Tiger" back in Chicago, decided that Ernie would best be able to serve as sort of a goodwill ambassador to make everybody who came to watch happy during the boring parts...