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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another player who has ties to the Ivy League even though he went to Notre Dame was a late cut of the Cleveland Browns. Joseph Restic Jr., punter and defensive back, headeo back to dental school at Penn...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Flirting With the NFL (or, Standing Pat) | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...time the "damned thing" arrives on Broadway, it is safe to say that it will have met its mistress. "Tough dame, that lovely frog," said Frank Capra, who directed her in It Happened One Night. When she sets her mind to do something, Colbert does it. Period. "I don't have any patience with people who say I can't.' " she says. "You can do anything you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Claudette: 77 and Ageless | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Robert Russell Bennett, 87, composer and conductor best known for his orchestrations of some 300 Broadway musicals, including Show Boat, Oklahoma!, South Pacific and The Sound of Music, as well as for his scores for movies (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and TV series (Victory at Sea); in New York City. Astonishingly speedy and fluent, Bennett could orchestrate a musical number from memory after seeing it rehearsed only two or three times. "The orchestrator's value is in his sensitiveness to melody," he once said. "If the melody has nothing to say, he is powerless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

College football's biggest powers-gristle mills such as Notre Dame, Alabama, Penn State and Texas-have long resented the fact that the National Collegiate Athletic Association does not permit them to negotiate their own big-bucks television deals. Instead the N.C.A.A. arranges TV packages itself. Now 61 of the superpowers are poised to change that. By a narrow margin, the College Football Association, which includes all the big-time football schools except those in the Pacific-10 and Big Ten, tentatively approved a four-year, $180 million television contract with NBC beginning with the 1982 season. The agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football Booty | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

Yeah, and Harvard has a better football team than Notre Dame. Don't mourn too long for this foursome. The police came and asked them to turn down the volume. They did, the police left, they turned the knob back up again, and three months later they graduated (a feat they celebrated with another, even larger, party). They are proof positive of an axiom worth knowing: most of the rules and regulations relating to conduct are enforced about as often as state statues against oral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bad Book | 8/14/1981 | See Source »

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