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With its back to the wall in the ninth Harvard tied the score when Berahard walked. Hurley advanced him with a bunt, and DeMichele drove in the run with a broken-bat single to center...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: DeMichele's Hits Lead Crimson To Ten-Inning 6-3 Win Over B. C. | 4/15/1970 | See Source »

...Columbia's final turn at bat. pitcher Frank Gordon opened with a single and stole second. After an intentional walk hurler Tom Kidwell forced Wesley Pike to hit into a double play...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Crimson Nine Splits With Lions; Hitters Avenge Close Loss, 11-5 | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...hapless preacher husband, "The devil made me buy that dress!" may become one of the classic routines of American comedy. On a funkier level is Richard Pryor. Aside from his extensive repertory of anal and armpit gags, Pryor does such splendidly satirical routines as "It's a bat, it's a crow, it's a job for SUPER NIGGER!" A totally different sort of innovator is Irwin C. Watson, who takes a gently self-mocking, cerebral approach to blackness. "I wasn't too surprised to hear there was a group starting a back-to-Africa movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Communicating with Laughter | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...Fitzsimmons began to regret his decision during the fall. "I played some basketball with him over Christmas vacation, and he told me then that he was unhappy about the school in general," Smith said. "He wasn't definite about leaving then, bat when he got back, it got worse and worse." he added...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Freshman Basketball Standout at Duke Will Transfer to Harvard in September | 2/19/1970 | See Source »

...first time I asked directions, an old lady at the newsstand in front of Grand Central Station shrieked: "You dumb freak! Freak! Can't you read? Read the goddamn sign!" Right then and there I knew I'd stepped into the big league city without a bat...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: New York Sheep in the Balcony "Sheep on the Runway," Helen Hayes Theatre, N. Y. C. | 2/13/1970 | See Source »

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