Word: allen
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Senior co-captains Glenn Fine and Bob Hooft shared most valuable player honors, and Bob Allen was named next year's captain at the annual basketball banquet, held last night under the Great Dome at Quincy Market...
Following Fish at the podium were assistant coaches Terry O'Connor and Billy Baynor who presented awards to Allen as the Best Defensive Player; Hooft as the top rebounder and scorer; freshman Dave Coatsworth for "Hustle"; Mark Harris for best field goal percentage; and Fine for best free-throw percentage as well as most assists...
...least these whales are alive. And that's the key thing about the Aquarium. The fish may look funny, and 43 members of the Ethan Allen grammar school third grade class may look even funnier, but when you go there you see things that you just can't anywhere else. That you may never see again...
Still, who could say with certitude that Nixon did not look like a Chief Executive and that Kennedy did, or vice versa? Is a President clean-cut? Ulysses S. Grant would have fit right in at an Allen Ginsberg poetry reading. Trim? Honest Grover Cleveland's dreadnought corpulence might have served as a model for Thomas Nast's potbellied crooks. Is the presidential face august, humane, agleam with probity? John Adams might have been cast as Scrooge or a consecrated bookkeeper. John Quincy Adams looked incipiently satanic. James Monroe's bug-eyed visage might have...
Reader Steve Smalling compared the second constitutional convention to a remake of Gone With the Wind with Woody Allen as Rhett and Phyllis Diller as Scarlett [March 12]. Personally, I prefer to think of it as the renovation of a historical landmark that if left alone would soon fall into decay and oblivion. Even the White House has to have a coat of paint now and then...