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Bruce Caputo played his first game as scrumhalf, Eric Bradlee hooked with props Bill Pfeiffer and Curt Lemkan. In the three-quarter line were Mike Burbank, hampered by a leg injury, Rod Gardner, and spunky Gage McAfee who, when tackled, frequently got right back up again and kept running...
When Swedish newspapers complain of government bureaucracy or badly muddled industry, they often wind up saying: "What's needed is a Nicolin." The man who has entered the Swedish language as a symbol of the shake-up and the clean sweep is tall, squarejawed Curt René Nicolin, 42, one of Sweden's brightest young businessmen and the chief troubleshooter for the family that controls or persuasively advises more than half of all Swedish industry, the Wallenbergs. Says Banker Marcus Wallenberg: "Nicolin has a sense and a feel for management...
...artists. For some reason, the beneficiaries of the party were neither painters nor sculptors, but rather the Musicians Emergency Fund. They were left far from broke by the baroque affair. Sales of tickets and catalogues for the opening night of the show, a tribute to the late dealer Curt Valentin, netted a tidy 12,000. This week recuperated New Yorkers could pay $1 and return for an unjostled look...
Sparking the new offense was the pass combination of quarterback Elliot Topkins and junior end Curt Lemkau, who accounted for two touchdowns in the last quarter...
...injured. Doctors and nurses, their clothing streaked with dried blood, worked feverishly. Others organized a makeshift morgue on the rink. Beneath gay red and green Chinese lanterns left over from the finale, men laid bodies on boards, covered them with blankets, tarpaulins and overcoats, and marked each with a curt description such as, "Young girl, sandy hair, blue eyes. Unidentified...