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Which was a shame. I found out later, reading the Crimson extra in my room long after the partying had stopped and everyone had gone to bed and my dad had flown home from Logan after treating me to dinner. The game had been a classic--35-28 Yale was the final--"one of the most exciting Harvard-Yale games in recent years." John Donley's story said...
...dad was watching, and at one point he tapped me on the shoulder. Spagnola just caught a screen and he may throw it," he said. And Spagnola did throw it--a halfback option and there was a man all alone at the 40 (split end Bob Krystyniak, we learned later) and he raced into the end zone untouched to give Yale a 21-14 lead it never relinquished...
...STORY of the Washington punch is one of many in Halberstam's ledger; he is, of course, the Olympic anecdote champion. No one gets the gossip he gets--the recruiters visiting Bill Walton's mom and dad, the notorious Marvin "Bad News" Barnes taking off on another binge, the team trainer enduring the petty humiliations. Halberstam traveled the entire season with the Blazers and it shows. He knows the patterns of big league life--the hotels, the planes, the soap operas (both televised and intramural)--and the reader's appreciation of the game is richer for it. The basketball story...
Coppinger has nearly listed 48 people on that piece of paper--ranging from Mom and Dad to someone named Andy's friend, grouped in categories like "good seats" and "bad seats"--and all of them will be in New Haven Saturday afternoon. Although it remains a mystery how Coppinger managed to get a hold of four dozen sought-after Yale tickets, ("But I had to pay for 40 of them," he says) all of those people will be there watching Coppinger lead the Crimson against the Elis...
That's just the way they are.' " Throughout the shooting, Hepburn played the fond or firm parent to Jane?so much so that Jane says, "I couldn't help fantasizing what would have happened if she and my dad had become lovers 40 years ago, and Kate had been my mother." It was Hepburn whose daunting presence made Jane realize she would have to perform a key scene?a difficult backflip into Golden Pond herself?without a stunt woman. Mama Kate's lesson: "If a child never learns to overcome its fears it will become soggy...