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...first goal by consistently outsmarting BU. Almost to a player, the Crimson relied on crafty court strategy rather than power. Evans, for example, battled back for a three-set victory after dropping the first set to Leslie Sheehan, 6-7, when Sheehan bested her, 7-1, in the tie-breaker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Outplay BU, 8-1, Capture Fall Season Opener | 10/7/1982 | See Source »

Allard picked a good day for his big game. A lot of pro scouts, most notably Boston Breaker (USH) Head Coach Dick Course were on hand for the game. Harvard's junior line backing due of Joe Azelby and Andy Nolan must have impressed as well, leading the Crimson with seven tackles and three assists each...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Allard Earns Eastern Honors | 9/28/1982 | See Source »

Henderson's record-breaker Friday night in Milwaukee was typically audacious. In the third inning, he broke for second and barely slid under the tag. Afterward, Brock and American League President Lee MacPhail presented him with the base. Said Brock: "Rickey, you've carved yourself a niche in baseball history." Stolen the niche would be more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rickey Henderson Steals First | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

...paramour, Man of the Cloth Ralph de Bricassart. Jean Simmons, 53, has the role of her mother Fee, and Barbara Stanwyck, 74, is cast as her Aunt Mary Carson. Only one major part, that of Meggie's husband Luke, is being played by an Australian, Bryan Brown (Breaker Morant). Brown may have his Down Under accent down pat, but the rest will have to fake it. Rachel, who was raised on an Oxfordshire farm, hopes a mid-Atlantic cadence will carry her through. Besides, says she, "Americans can't tell the difference between Australian and English accents anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 12, 1982 | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...Hitler has gone down in history as the personification of evil, Mussolini has won his own immortality as the archetypal thug. But the founder of Fascism was a complex thug who could never make up his mind whether he wanted to be a fearsome breaker of the peace, like his neighbor to the north, or a geopolitical showman, the P.T. Barnum of international politics. Judging from Denis Mack Smith's study, by far the more solid and persuasive of these two new biographies, the Duce (chief) was a bit of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Views of a Little Caesar | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

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