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...Professional sport is in fact no more violent than it used to be. The beanball has been with us since baseball began. Back in 1920, Cleveland Indian Ray Chapman was killed by Yankee Carl Mays' fastball. Twenty years ago Giant Pitcher Sal Maglie was given the sobriquet "the Barber" because of the close shaves his fastball gave the faces of hitters. Don Drysdale, a Dodger star of the '60s, was famed as a fastballing headhunter. Basketball, theoretically a noncontact sport and one pleasantly peopled with college types, long had its "hit" men, players like Boston's Jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Doing Violence to Sport | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...very irresponsible journalism. In fact, a large majority of students in North House feel that Harvard is discriminating against Sherman Holcombe because of his union activity. We hope that The Crimson will be more careful in the future. Walter Carlip Peter S. Hogness Sue Thiemann Gary Conroy Thomas W. Barber Jeffrey K. Griffiths Diane Sperling Gustavo Buntinx Cathy Perlmutter Reed Sutherland Ellen Kelman David Johnson Peter Liepmann Emily Cahan Marcella Calabi A.W. Merrill Adele Peskin

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COERCION? | 3/20/1976 | See Source »

Chamber Music and Dancing featuring Shann Jacobsen, piano; Wendy Holdaway, bassoon; Kathleen Watt, soprano. Pieces by Vivaldi, Mozart and Barber to be followed by waltz and other dances. Kirkland...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Music | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...open at the neck, and over it he wore a bright red cardigan. He could have been a stagehand out for a stroll. Instead, James Levine, the new music director of the Metropolitan Opera, was making his rounds. It was the season's last performance of The Barber of Seville. Levine had seen and heard it countless times before. That did not matter to the man charged with preserving and restoring the troubled company's musical excellence. He prefers to make his own quality checks, and besides, a new bass, Andrew Foldi, was singing his first Bartolo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Met's Young Master | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...attempt to override the veto, and Ford was extremely anxious to foil them. The unwieldy bill contained $916 million for programs, mainly health, that the President felt the nation could not readily afford. House Minority Leader John Rhodes, Minority Whip Robert Michel, Congressmen John Anderson from Illinois and Barber Conable from New York knew that the President looked upon the vote as a key test of his ability to defend his tight budget. Not incidentally, a victory would give his campaign against Conservative Ronald Reagan a flying start by showing that Ford was not only a conservative but a leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Mr. President, We're in Trouble' | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

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