Word: dame
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...game against federal deficits [Aug. 30]. Switching courses slightly does not remove the impact of the third tax cut or the military's insatiable appetite for tax dollars. Don't forget that when Ronald Reagan, playing the legendary halfback George Gipp, asked that a Notre Dame team win "one for the Gipper," he was a goner...
Take a glance back through Columbia football history. Last winning season: 1971 (6-3). Last winning season before that: 1962 (5-4). The last Columbia head coach who won more games than he lost while at the school: Charles F. Crowley, a Notre Dame graduate (and hence, an obvious winner) who was 26-16-4 during his five-year lenure in a Lion suit. The years were...
With a silken rustle, like a grande dame rising from table, the V.S.O.E. slips away at precisely 5:44 p.m. All the food loaded on at Boulogne is French, save for the croissants, which are delivered hot at dawn in Lausanne, Switzerland, and are sadly soggy. The chef on board is Michel Ranvier, a graduate of the renowned Paris restaurant Jamin; he was approved by Sherwood, who is the author of an excellent gourmet guide to London. The train's general manager is Claude Ginella, formerly with the Savoy in Rome and the Meurice in Paris...
...sexual rites gentler. Greeley's turf remains Camelot West: the Chicago of lace-curtain Irish who have pushed their way to the top. Multimillionaire Mike Cronin, who beds women faster than Joe Kennedy could say "Gloria Swanson," has set the course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes off to win a Medal of Honor in the Korean War, is going to be President. Sean is bound for the priesthood, and will of course be a Cardinal. Paul's wife is to be Nora, orphaned daughter of a family friend and a foster child...
DIED. Marie Rambert, 94, grande dame of the British ballet; of a stroke; in London. After dancing with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, where she worked with Nijinsky, the volatile Polish-born teacher in 1926 formed Ballet Rambert, Britain's first ballet company. There the exuberant "Mim" nurtured such choreographers and dancers as Anthony Tudor, Frederick Ashton and Agnes de Mille...