Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particularly like the part about Nieman fellow Frank Van Riper being the "big gun" with his "pair of towering triples." Never has the mantle of sports cliche fit an individual better. My mother thanks you. Yours for bigger and better journalism, Frank [Big Gun] Van Riper...
...there was still a mystique about leaders. Professors, priests, parents, and presidents commanded respect. Many of the brightest sought protection in being close to power in government, corporations, law firms, big newspapers. But we were learning that there was no progress without courage and vision. I visited Harry S. Truman in Kansas City, to interview him for The Crimson. In 1948, we had been the only Massachusetts paper to support him. "Aren't you a funny magazine?" he asked. "No, we try to be serious," I answered. What did he think of President Eisenhower? "How can he let that bastard...
...that the fuel-saving Moodymobile [May 14] will never make it because it makes too much sense-and not enough dollars and cents for Big Oil or the car companies...
...look around Blodgett symbolized the physical changes. My memory clicked back to the big Princeton-Harvard swim meet in the antiquated IAB pool, and how it signalled the competitive end of a facility steeped in history. In stark contrast, Blodgett is almost too modern and impersonal...
Reardon also discussed Harvard's future home-and-home football series against West Point, a rivalry he hoped would give the Athletic Department a sorely needed 'big gate.' He then dropped a surprising bombshell--Harvard and Boston College are currently negotiating to meet each other in what could be Bean-town's football version of Michigan-Michigan State...