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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for a change to a stiffer and longer pole, his style has remained more or less constant, although the Eliot House senior did have to make some adjustments since the short runway in Brigg's Cage cut more than 35 feet off his approach...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Geoff Stiles: Pole Vaulter With Style | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

...judge really has. She was handling cases at an average of three minutes each." When his turn came, Yates pleaded guilty and made a "philosophical rather than legal argument" in his defense. Yates believes his argument, as well as overcrowding in the Piscataquis County Jail, influenced Judge Jesse Brigg's decision. She handed down a $50 suspended sentence, and, when reached for comment later, said that "the crime was not particularly worth a night in jail, which Yates had already spent...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Disobedience a la Thoreau: The Case of Gus Yates | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...Briggs recovered inter is the day but not before the tourney ended. "I was all to win the set and make the finals and I lost my chance," he said. "The injury was nothing serious." Briggs defeated players from Philadelphia and New York, winning six of nine matches. Niederhoffer advanced to the finals after Brigg's default and lost the Championship to New Yorker Frank Satherwaithe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Squash Captain Loses NY Tourney Bid | 11/21/1972 | See Source »

...Briggs finished the year at number one. He is a talented player with a wide variety of shots and surprises. Barnaby has spent the preseason trying to add "a tactical sophistication" to Brigg's abilities. "He has matured a great deal into a challenging competitor," Barnaby said...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Barnaby: Whistlin' the Same Ol' Tune | 11/11/1971 | See Source »

That supreme musical watercolorist of English post-Romanticism, Frederick Delius, is known best today for such delicately tinted orchestral tableaux as Brigg Fair, Over the Hills and Far Away and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring. Last week at the Opera Society of Washington, his opera Koanga made it clear that Delius. who died in 1934, could also be effective with strong colors on a broad canvas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ante Bellum Aida | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

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