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...team finished sixth with a 6-8 Ivy record and an 11-15 overall mark. Personal acclaim was earned by guard Bob Ferry, who won Rookie-of-the-Year honors and senior swingman Don Fleming, who will graduate as Harvard's all-time leading scorer (1797 points...
Pleased with the critical acclaim accorded the People issue, ranking Lampoon editor Michael H. Ferris '83 said of the Time project. "We hope it's a big money maker...
...Convinced that image defined reality, Haldeman went along with, and frequently encouraged, Nixon's nearly obsessive belief that all his difficulties were caused by inadequate public relations. Nixon never could rid himself of the delusion that only the failings of his media staff kept him from receiving the acclaim he associated with John F. Kennedy. President and chief of staff devoted much time to discussing how to manipulate the press-a doomed quest so long as both rejected a serious dialogue with the hated, feared and secretly envied representatives of the media...
...American short fiction written this century. It was justifiably praised and prized; it also became a bestseller, which collections of stories are not supposed to do. Having summed up one strand of his career, and facing a considerably enlarged circle of admirers, the author was left with some money, acclaim and a very hard act to follow...
...film, George White's Scandals (1935), Powell covered four miles in her dance routines, and in Broadway Melody of 1940, she gloriously matched Fred Astaire tap for tap. Those movies, and such others as Born to Dance (1936), Rosalie (1937) and Lady Be Good (1941), won her critical acclaim as the best woman tap dancer on film...