Word: crones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Eric Crone was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals on the 17th round of last year's NFL draft, Crimson gridiron fans had reason to be surprised. And, although the colorful Crone was finally cut when the Cardinals trimmed down to their final regular season limit last week, the fact that Crone was the last player to be dropped by the Cardinals speaks highly for the 6 ft. 3 in. quarterback...
What can you do to replace Endzone Crone? Crone, three-year quarterback for the Harvard football team, whose exploits on the floor of the massive and cement-columned Harvard Stadium mystified a college generation. Crone.... a man who in a brief and fleeting moment at the end of a Yale football game, simultaneously snatched fame and infamy from the miasma of Harvard athletic history. End-zone Crone, a man fading, pumping, scrambling with an effortless inviolability, zeroing in like a computerized homing pigeon, tightening and tightening the frantic gyre until he could settle to his knees on that corner...
...Cariou), and the sternly ludicrous conceit that his wife (Patricia Elliot) and his mistress ought to be equal paragons of fidelity. This tangled skein of love and its counterfeits is happily unraveled in Act II at the country house of the actress's mother (Hermione Gingold), an old crone and an amorous relic of the King of the Belgians who bestowed a duchy upon her. Her philosophy: "Solitaire is the only thing in life that demands absolute honesty...
...that news is already circulating in rumor form. It is our aim and it is our duty to clarify rumors and to follow them up to the best of our ability. We were not out to "get" Dave Hynes just as we were not out to "get" Eric Crone. They are public figures and their activities are the concern of the Harvard community. Our aim is to serve that concern...
...Crone, one of four Ivy League players drafted by the pros, was, according to his mother, "absolutely thrilled" by his selection. But the reality of professional football may be too harsh for Crone, as indeed Ivy football was for the quarterback who finished seventh in Ivy passing and broke the Harvard career interception mark...