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...school days hacking at the model dragon on the south meadow. On commencement day, the headmaster gave Gawaine a magic word ("Rumplesnitz") and sent him forth to slay real live dragons. The very next day, Gawaine said the good word to a lavender dragon, and with a biff of his battle-axe, cut off the creature's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Snap Dragon | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Mike Hammer, Spillane's kill-crazy shamus, is portrayed by a young heavy from TV named "Biff" Elliot. "I'll kick your teeth all over the floor," he snarls at one point. When the teeth splash, they splash into the audience's lap, because I, the Jury is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

Claire kept right on helping her father after her marriage in 1930 to blond Clifford ("Biff") Hoffman, Stanford fullback and captain (1928). She also became a general (inactive) partner with a sizable interest in Biff's brokerage firm, and the company got its share of Bank of America business. But Claire Hoffman never took a public part in her father's bank or her husband's business; she has spent much of her quiet life riding, playing golf (in the 90s) and helping the Y.W.C.A. Said brother L.M.: "She's a good businesswoman ... a hardheaded person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: A. P.'s Daughter | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Boston, now backfield coach at West Point, replaces J. William (Biff) Glassford, who resigned to become head football coach at the University of Nebraska...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Chief' Boston Named New Hampshire Coach | 3/10/1949 | See Source »

...Sunday Skip Stahley, coach at George Washington and a former Harlow assistant, dropped into Cambridge to visit friends, but apparently left town the next day. Biff Glassford, New Hampshire mentor, was the next caller. He too left for the hills after a short conference with Bingham...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Secret Parley Points to Valpey as New Coach | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

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