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...race. Two years ago in Annapolis, high winds and whitecaps resulted in the Quakers' defeat of a heavily-favored Harvard boat. Last year in Cambridge, the Crimson was down by more than one length with 1000 meters to go, charged back and beat the Quaker crew by a bow ball at the finish...

Author: By Rik Geiersbach, | Title: Penn, Navy Slide Past Harvard | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...group has not caused the city excessive trouble in the past. Vellucci has had a long and not always friendly rivalry with the Lampoon; Cambridge lore has it that he is reponsible for the tree which spoils the view of Mt. Auburn St. from the confines of 44 Bow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 4/28/1990 | See Source »

...East Coast audience was noticably taken aback by my answer. I wasn't from Long Island, Washington or New Jersey. They looked curiously at my bow tie, evidently wondering how I learned to tie one while slopping hogs and milking cows. I think they were more surprised that there were actually Jews living in Iowa...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: In Defense of Iowa | 4/25/1990 | See Source »

Less than a decade ago, many blacks regarded the Nation of Islam as little more than bow-tied black nationalists, peddling bean pies and hawking newspapers on street corners from Harlem to Watts. While they commanded respect for their neat appearance and abstinence from cigarettes, alcohol and drugs, the Muslims' rigid religious strictures and separatist political views kept them on the fringes of mainstream black America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing The Right Thing | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...London -- London, Ont., that is -- but his family was as rich as Tandy's had been poor. His father was one of Canada's most prominent businessmen, as well as a Member of Parliament; his mother was a Labatt, as in Labatt's beer. After making a brief bow to family sensibilities by attending McGill University, he headed south in the early '30s, to Manhattan, where he studied acting. The great George Abbott gave him his first big break and taught him the rough-and-tumble art of farce, an athletic, physical approach to his craft that he has since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUME CRONYN and JESSICA TANDY: Two Lives, One Ambition | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

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