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...House junior Steve Larkin, he had won a trip for two to Bermuda with his half-court shot at halftime in the Brown game. He was formally presented with his Bermuda Shoot laurels Saturday. His companion? Roommate Kirk Mundy, "who dragged me to the game in the first place." Bon voyage, guys...
...notion of book burning is unthinkable to many and appalling to others, if only because it brings to mind the rise of Adolf Hitler's Germany - an event marked by widespread bon fires fed by the works of scores of writers including Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, H.G. Wells and Jack London...
DIED. Marc Connelly, 90, playwright, bon vivant and raconteur whose 1930 play The Green Pastures, depicting Old Testament stories as they might have been enacted by Southern plantation blacks, is one of the enduring triumphs of the American theater; in New York City. An early collaborator of George S. Kaufman and one of the circle of wits at the Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s, he later turned to directing, writing and traveling...
...yellow has paled considerably since the days of "Tarn" and "Bon," and so has the Post's financial picture. This year, for the first time, the Post was overtaken by the News in daily circulation, 271,000 to 260,000. Worse, pretax profits for the first eight months of 1980 plummeted to $78,000, from $3.6 million for the same period in 1979. Finally, because of a tangled financial scheme originally designed by a Bonfils heir to prevent the paper from falling into outsiders' hands, even those slim profits have been drained off to support part of Denver...
Then, at a bon voyage press conference for Bush on Aug. 16, Reagan repeated his comment about hoping to set up an "official governmental relationship" between the U.S. and Taiwan. Peking officials received Bush frostily and demanded clarification of Reagan's remarks. Bush tried and failed to convince them that there would be no government relations "in the diplomatic sense" with Taiwan in a Reagan Administration. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., Reagan undercut Bush by telling a reporter, "Um, I guess it's a yes," when asked if he still stood by his original Taiwan statement. As Bush...