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...story is almost legendary in journalistic circles by now. Several years ago, Sally Quinn, broke and out of work, went to see Washington Post editor Bon Bradlee '43, about a job. Meeting her for the first time, Bradlee offered her a position as a party reporter for the paper's Style section. Quinn accepted, and as she began to leave Bradlee asked her to leave some samples of her writing. She replied that she had never written anything before. Unabashed, Bradlee shrugged and said, "Well, nobody's perfect...
...present Parliament, oratory is often more tinny than golden. The only bon mot of the day came from Labor's former Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn. The embattled Benn responded to Tory taunts that he resign by taking an ungentlemanly swipe at Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher: "If the opposition wants my head on a salver, the leader of the Conservative Party will have to be a lot more seductive Salome than she has been so far." Less dazzling repartee came from left-wing Labor M.P. Eric Heffer, who responded testily to a pro-Market interjection by shouting...
Columbia roared off the starting floats Saturday down at the Charles River Basin and matched the Crimson lightweight eight stroke for stroke....for about two strikes. At stroke three Ned Reynolds and company bid bon voyage to the Lions crew, and left the Columbia eight high and dry as Harvard cruised to an easy six jength victory in the impressive time of 6 minutes and 12 seconds...
...empty victory to capture the land and lose the people. Armed troops were also mixed with the refugees. Thus last week North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces were deployed to try to block the exodus from the Central Highlands to the coast. On a stretch of road in Phu Bon province, a refugee column was harassed again and again by enemy fire, taking heavy casualties. At one point part of the column crossed the Song Ba River but soon ran into a Viet Cong blockade that stopped its advance. Perhaps as many as 50,000 people and 500 trucks found...
Junior freestyler Bon Blattner will no doubt carry Yale's hopes on his shoulders in the 200 and 500 freestyle this afternoon. Blattner has swum...