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...George Murphy, who tallied 21 and 23 goals, respectively, for last year's 18-2 freshman team, join junior Tag Demment on the third line tonight. The sophomore are good, small skaters with great scoring ability, while junior Demment, a defenseman most of last year, has hatchet-man brawn and a potent slap shot...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Hockey Team Opens Season Against Bowdoin | 11/30/1966 | See Source »

...just so happened that this technological triumph--brain over brawn, you might say (you probably couldn't do any better if, like many a son of a Stoughton by that juncture, you were nine beers gone) --stirred the minds and hearts of all the participants. Caught up as they were in the adolescent joy of it all, they nevertheless recognized in the incident a glimmer of the intellectual plunk Harvard was said to cherish...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: THE CLASS OF '66 | 6/15/1966 | See Source »

...Percy Foreman, 64, is probably the biggest, brashest, brightest criminal lawyer in the U.S. The 250-lb. son of a onetime Texas sheriff, Foreman chose brains over brawn as a teen-ager when he landed a contract to load cotton at 25? a bale, then hired laborers to do the job at 8? a bale. At 16, Foreman quit the hamlet of Bold Springs to seek his fortune in Houston; he shined shoes, delivered papers, and hustled through the University of Texas law school. Of his clients, he likes to say mysteriously: "They may not always be right, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Mesmerism in Miami | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Somebody once said that the man who fishes for black marlin probably wears a size 44 coat and a size 4 hat. That is libel, of course. But the idea is that it takes brawn to catch one-and a kind of lunacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: All Out for Banzai! | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...people a year now attend the YMHA's plays, concerts and poetry readings. It is the country's biggest Jewish center, perhaps the world's. For New Yorkers of every faith, it is a center of opportunity that hopefully will endure as long as Bach and brawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adult Education: 92nd Street's 90th | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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