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...husband's, came from UNO, which, according to UNO registrar K. Lance Woodliff, "she attended for a brief time but left without receiving any credit." In the Business School yearbook, however, Monette put Boston as her home town, and Radcliffe and a non-existent Spanish University as her alma maters...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: A Rose by Any Other Name | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...solemn for they take upon themselves the responsibility of informing their classmates (with a ponderousness proportionate to the gravity of their message) that something is amiss at the college they all love so well. Though the tune may change, their sad song always conveys the same message: Alma Mater, that grand old dame at whose dugs they were once suckled on the sweet nectar of collegiate knowledge and sociability, is no longer, alas, what she once was. When the sad alumni walk past those ivy-bedecked, Roman numeral-inscribed walls, they can tell, almost viscerally, that something is different. Though...

Author: By James B. Witkin, | Title: Pride, Privilege and Prejudice | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

...Crimson unveiled the "Dunder to Diller connection," as Danny Dilorati in a "private victory" came back to haunt his alma mater, steering home a goal 2:47 into the third period to give the icemen a 4-2 cushion...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Freshman Sports | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

Unseeded Harvard played unseen by spectators in the peripheral courts of Penn's Ringe Gym all weekend. The pastel corduroys, the tweeds and the Lacoste shirts were out in full force--but not to watch their alma-mater. Rather, the women's and men's national championships were crowd-drawing events in the tournament...

Author: By Amy Sacks, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Squashed in National Title Bid | 2/17/1976 | See Source »

...events. Other medal possibilities at Innsbruck: Teammates Lubov Sadchikova and Galina Stepanskaya, American Sheila Young and Japan's Makiko Nagaya. Averina has no equivalent among the men, but Soviets hold four of five world marks. Impressive, but somewhat deceptive. The records were all set at high altitude, in Alma-Ata, near the Chinese border. That might mean that American Peter Mueller, Holland's Hans van Helden or two Norwegians, Jan Egil Storholt and Sten Stensen, can upset the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Short Guide to All the Action | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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