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...most sustained radio stardom of any network performer, 1931-61. For more than a decade he fronted the "Kraft Music Hall," which had a bigger audience in the '30s than "Survivor" has today. Fifty million listeners a week: relative to the population then and now, those are Super Bowl numbers...
Dick Vermeil retired after finally winning a Super Bowl ring as coach of the St. Louis Rams in 2000. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful Cinderella story. Of course, that didn't last. Vermeil has just signed on to coach the Kansas City Chiefs...
Well, I've about had it. I've decided to retire from The Crimson myself. I know you're shocked, but I have very good reasons. I've spent some time going over my recent columns, and I've determined that my woefully inaccurate prediction of an awesome Super Bowl last month may signal a decline in the quality of my work. I'd like to quit while I'm still at the top of my game...
...pages; $24) thanks to Canadian author Elizabeth Hays' deft variations on and additions to familiar themes. Two sisters, Lucinda, 17, and Norma Joyce Hardy, 8, fall in love with the older man who visits their father's farm in Saskatchewan during the 1930s to study local plants and Dust Bowl weather patterns. Maurice Dove ought to fall for the beautiful and virtuous Lucinda, who runs the household in place of her deceased mother, but it is Norma Joyce, plain and engagingly clever, who snares his attention over succeeding decades, never as husband but eventually as father of her child...
While many people lost more money than I did on the Super Bowl, none lost theirs as stupidly. On Nov. 10, I overheard my co-worker Josh Tyrangiel, who is from Baltimore, say he was going to put $10 down in Vegas on the Ravens' winning the Super Bowl, for a 20-1 payout of $200. Despite the fact that I knew nothing about the Ravens, oddsmaking, or, sadly, something called "the vig," I was convinced he was wrong and offered to be his bookie. Turns out accepting one bet isn't how most bookies make their living. Oddly, collecting...