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After a seance with my baby brother, the Sultan of Swat, the Swami will utter the words of wisdom that every baseball afficionado years of each year at this time--baseball's pennant winners...

Author: By Francis T. Crimmins jr., | Title: Frankly Speaking | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

When the post-Christmas holidays of cheers, Veer's, parades and national titles roll by, the East Coast football afficionado slips deeper into his armchair, eggnog and enlightened cynicism over "big-time" college football out in the provinces...

Author: By Robert T. Garrettt and Michael K. Savit, S | Title: Lining Up for the Post-Season Bowls | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

Billing Dreams as the third part of a trilogy indeed misleads the anxious afficionado. True, the cast and the subject imply some continuity from the above-mentioned pair; but the serio-comic has become too serious, and as a result, Dreams drags...

Author: By Fred D. Phillips, | Title: Dreams | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...reference to the inimitable Bobby Clark who will save the whole shebang from a fate worse than bankruptcy. It grieves me to report that not only is the heretofore exuberant Mr. Clark imitable, but also that with a few exceptions he isn't worth imitating. For an old Clark afficionado those are hard words to utter, but there they are. The show, as it stands, is a clinger...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

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