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The Slice archive for April 17, 2014

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014

Honor roll of long-ago PCL opponents

http://1965topps.blogspot.com And I noted the other day that the player whose minor league stats are below pitched against the Spokane Indians (in a mid-season exhibition game) as a member of the American League's Seattle Pilots. But he also had a couple of stints as a…

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Born in Spokane Dept.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/actress-mikki-jamison-adam-12-dies-578060 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417199/ http://veja.abril.com.br/blog/temporadas/files/2013/07/MikkiJamison.jpg http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2013/jun/16/obituary-rovtar-mikki-mcgoldrick/

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Back when broadsheets were broad

http://unsungfilms.com In this movie scene, the character played by Donna Reed is... A) Just closing up the library. B) Waiting for the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor. C) Looking for news about the police investigation after her boyfriend killed Quinton McHale in a knife fight.…

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2014 Pulitzer finalist I danced with in 1981

As I recall, Cynthia Hubert, now of the Sacramento Bee, was an intern who was so good she got hired fulltime by my paper in Arizona. I didn't know her well, but I remember her as a good person. www.sacbee.com Check this out. http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/15/6323879/bee-series-on-patient-dumping.html

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Thinking about sex at church

I was thinking about Easter. That got me thinking about how people used to dress up for church. That reminded me of a column I wrote long ago and far away about how women tended to look quite fetching in their Sunday finery. And that…

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When people in EW make fun of Idaho

Do they ever stop and think that, without Western Washington's domination of state politics, Eastern Washington might give the Gem State a run for its money when it comes to a certain brand of political high jinks and arguably blind antipathy for government?

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