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...became Gittleman's partner in a doubles game against Blue and "L". My palms sweated as I made silly errors early on, forcing Gittleman to make the tough shots. I tried to ease the champ's tension by smiling nervously and asking him why he didn't have a nickname. "My name is so weird I don't need one," he grunted...

Author: By Jeffrey E. Seifert, | Title: Pumping Iron with World-Class Jocks | 10/31/1981 | See Source »

...booters--with 16 letterman returning from 1980--get their second chance this year at top-flight competition when Hartwick College, the defending Eastern Regional champ, visits the Business School Field at 3:30 today...

Author: By L.joseph Garcia, | Title: A Chance at the Top | 10/7/1981 | See Source »

...Crimson qualifies for the Easterns, which it should, the squad will probably have to handle preseason favournes Brown and Loyola of Chicago to reach the final four. Fordham (fourth last year) and defending champ Bucknell, despite losing the nation's top NCAA scorer, also provide formidable competition...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Plunging Into the Front Ranks | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Confirmed extraterrestrials are a diverse group. John Flynn, a hospital security guard who lives in Brooklyn, has a homemade job he built out of a handbook and $7,500 worth of parts. Record and Movie Producer Lou Adler has a rather more elaborate installation out in Malibu. Heavyweight Champ Larry Holmes has one at his digs in Easton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Earth Stations: Sky in the Pie | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...whole has gone awry: we gaze into a cuckooland of cultural pretension. Small wonder that Traversi failed to get the big commissions; but his work stays in the mind long after the more decorative things in this show, the chalky allegories of the arts, the fêtes champêtres and royal hunting scenes, have blurred together in their amicable second rateness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: When Europe Began in Naples | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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