Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sutton made a fantastic comeback this spring from a severe back injury that sidelined him for the 1971 season, winning a first-boat position in the Heavyweight varsity boat. Sutton rowed bow for Harry Parker's varsity eight that went undefeated during the regular season...
Dali's latest attempt at a comeback is his current show at Knoedler's in Manhattan. It is a lugubrious event, more rummage sale than exhibition. Though it was not conceived as a retrospective, it spans about four decades of his output and so gives some sense of the appalling decline that his talent has suffered. To see some of Dali's best early work, like the tiny Specter of Sex Appeal (1934), is almost to confront a different painter: somewhere along the line that nightmarish distinctness and mystery of image, in which every speck of paint...
...just that. In the 1960s he built G. & W. into a prosperous conglomerate, piling one acquisition atop another, from auto parts to zinc mining. But along with many other conglomerates, G. & W. foundered when tight money and recession struck a couple of years ago. Now Bluhdorn is making a comeback, lifted by a business where luck is a necessity: motion pictures. In his palmier days, Bluhdorn bought Paramount Pictures, lately the producer of The Godfather, which will probably be the biggest moneymaker in cinema history...
Both Bob Clayton, in the half mile, and Nick Leone in the quarter will have to go it alone. "They are both good enough to be a threat." McCurdy said yesterday. "The question is how far back they are on the comeback trail...
Austin O'Conner, coming off a good performance at the GBC's, appears to be the top Harvard hope in the sprints, while Fred Linsk, Mike Koerner, and a subpar Rick Rojas will comprise the limited Harvard scoring potential in the distances. Bob Seals, surprising everyone with his strong comeback in the mile, faces a tough field...