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...together with the pop world's rising star, and the talk was strictly bearish. Singer Teddy Pendergrass, a.k.a. Teddy Bear, had stopped off at the Embassy Row home of Alice Roosevelt Longworth to present her with an oversized, cuddly guess-what. The visit was to mark the 75th anniversary of the first Teddy bear, named after Alice's father, Teddy Roosevelt. "It has a great big fat swollen face, with a little mouth on the edge. It's just waiting to be loved," shrugged the tart-tongued Princess Alice. "I'm supposed to cherish...
First, though, a word about the upcoming Harvard-Yale game this Saturday. The word is "trouble." Here we are, the 75th anniversary of Harvard Stadium, the tenth anniversary of the fabled 29-29 tie, and the first time no league championship has been at stake for Harvard or Yale since 1971, when Bob Blackman was doing his Bud Wilkinson imitation at Dartmouth...
...vengeance. For all the intricate meshing of team play in baseball -the lightning ballet of the double play, the slick-quick coordination of a relay from the outfield-the sport remains a game of individual skills. Lopes produced the first of a string of great individual performances in this 75th World Series. He crashed two home runs into the bleachers in left center, the last a screamer that was still on the rise when it rifled into the stands ten rows behind the 385-ft. marker...
...Angeles Dodgers staved off two late-inning rallies by the New York Yankees to take the first game of the 75th World Series at Chavez Ravine...
...refused to start, but by parade time the 1903 Model A was purring nicely. The driver, William Clay Ford, younger brother of Henry II, led 75 Ford cars through Dearborn, Mich., to celebrate the company's 75th anniversary. For Ford, 53, known to sports fans as the owner of the Detroit Lions, the parade was his first public appearance as chairman of the company's executive committee. How does William feel about his new job? "Unless somebody invents a day with more than 24 hours," he says, "more time at the company means less time with the Lions...