Best Tales of 88 and the Not-So-Ethnic Humor Award
GUS SCHRADER surveys the 1988 best stories noting Frosty Mitchell and Bob Ray as top honorees for the How's-That-Again? Award and Not-So-Ethnic-Humor Award winner Forest Evashevski. The piece recalls the WMT loan, a bank parking ticket gag, Hamtramck legends, Polish jokes, and a quip by Jim Zabel about a cash bar at WHO radio.
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Tales of
Frosty, Bob, Forest and
Zabel
Frosty Mitchell
WMT Radio
Bob Ray
Life Investors
Iowa
WMT
Cedar Rapids
Ray
Mitchell
Forest Evashevski
Evy
Donald Kaul
Gazette
Donald
Hamtramck
Detroit
Stan Musial
St. Louis Cardinal
Musial
Evashevski
Ewashewski
Poland
Quayle
WHO Radio
Des Moines
Jim Zabel
WHO
Reagan to Undergo Finger Surgery at Walter Reed
President Reagan will have elective surgery Saturday at Walter Reed Army Hospital to correct Dupuytren's contracture in his left ring finger. The operation, led by hand specialists including Dr. George Bogumill, Col. Alan Smith, Maj. Paul Perlik, and Dr. John Hutton, uses axillary block anesthesia and aims to restore finger function within six to eight weeks.
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Los Angeles
Reagan
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Washington
John Hutton
Army
White House
Hutton
Dupuytren
Baron Dupuytren
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Roman Popadiuk
Walter Reed
George Bogumill
Georgetown University
Alan Smith
Paul Perlik
Walter Reed Orthopedic Department
Charles Lane
Beverly Hills
Calif
Lane
Ambassador Hotel Closes After 68 Years of Glamour
The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles shuts its doors ending a storied era. Once a luxury landmark on Wilshire Boulevard, it hosted Khrushchev Presley Taylor Belafonte Crosby and Charles among others. Its Cocoanut Grove lounge and famed era fade as peeling paint and wear mark disrepair.
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Los Angeles
Ambassador Hotel
Charlie Chaplin
Robert Kennedy
Marion Davies
Cocoanut Grove
Wilshire Boulevard
California
Nikita Khrushchev
Elvis Presley
Elizabeth Taylor
Lena Horne
Harry Belafonte
Bing Crosby
Ray Charles
Davies
William Randolph Hearst
Yesteryear
Jack Benny
Mary Livingston
Gottfried Schmidts
Marilyn Monroe
Walter Winchell
Ambassador
Man dangled over machinery entitled to jobless benefits
Des Moines based ruling finds Mark Gavin faced unsafe working conditions when three coworkers hung him by his belt from a chain hoist over live machinery at Iowa Welding and Suspension Service. Administrative judge Dan Anderson ruled Gavin did not quit voluntarily and may receive unemployment benefits.
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Gazette
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Dan Anderson
Job Service of Iowa Appeals Bureau
Mark S. Gavin
Iowa Welding and Suspension Service Inc
Gavin
Richard Cortez
Cortez
Anderson
Daughter of disappeared Argentine woman gains custody
In Buenos Aires a judge ordered 12 year old Ximena Vicario to be handed to her natural grandmother while she clings to her adoptive mother Susana Siciliano. Ximena is the daughter of a woman arrested and disappeared during Argentina's 1976 1983 dictatorship.
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Ximena Vicario
Susana Siciliano
Buenos Aires
Ximena
Argentina
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Skogman
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Subaru
Vin Ucleer
Keith Boesenberg
Ron Gefaller
Jim Miller
Nissan Service Department
Meller
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Chicago
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