Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enter the villain, Carter Burden. The reason Felker is the minority stockholder in his own concern is because two years ago New York bought the Voice, with Carter Burden's money. Burden, the great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and his friend Bartle Bull, ended up with 34 per cent of New York stock...
SPORT. There is no connection-except that sport is a form of warfare-but 1977 will also be the year of the cinema jock. Rocky will be followed by a flurry of boxing movies: The Greatest, all about, natch, Muhammad Ali, who plays himself; Raging Bull, starring Robert DeNiro as former Middleweight Champ Jake LaMotta; and a comedy called Knockout, in which a clothes designer buys a boxer as a tax shelter. For football fans there is Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough, which began shooting in Dallas last week, with Kris Kristofferson and Burt Reynolds. Says Jenkins: "The script...
Died. Munro Leaf, 71, creator of Ferdinand the Bull in a 1936 children's story that has since been translated into 16 languages and sold 2.5 million copies; of cancer; in Garrett Park, Md. Leaf taught high school before writing and illustrating dozens of children's books. Ferdinand, the peace-loving bull who would rather sniff flowers than fight, later starred in a Walt Disney movie, and was used to sell merchandise from cereal to diamond pins...
...week traveling with Carter's chief political adviser, Hamilton Jordan, as he masterminded the preparation of background material and interviews for his boss. "He makes endless calls-to the low and the mighty," says Ajemian. "But any call from Jordan these days is a call from the bull's-eye of power." What Ajemian learned in the bull's-eye-as well as the latest gleanings of other TIME transition watchers-appears in this week's Nation section...
...staircase certainly makes late evening bull sessions possible on a much larger scale. Around 11 p.m. doors invariably seem to open, and crowds soon form to discuss whatever Harvard freshmen discuss when they're tired of writing Expos papers. A while back someone discovered that the stairway is perfectly suited for games of vertical football, with each floor pitted against the other three. The evening games may keep the students away from their Gov 30 reading, but they also seem to bring most of them closer together as friends. "We have a very socially contained community," notes Philip A. Sisson...