Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coach Dick Harlow, along with star players like running back Torbert H. MacDonald '42 and guard Endicott Peabody '42, helped build the Crimson's reputation for strong play during the 1930s...
Underneath the big top, with the greatest of delicacy and the easy smile of a star, Dick Withington is juggling invisible Indian clubs. Up goes his left hand: "16,000." Down goes his left hand and up goes his right hand: "17,000." Left hand again, supple and rock steady: "18,000." His knees are slightly bent, his weight well forward. His voice as he calls off the ascending prices is clear and controlled, the even numbers chanted a couple of notes higher than the odd. There is no trace of strain. He can keep the bidding on this early...
Talk so often leads to more talk. Perhaps that is why this fall, besides NBC's Johnny Carson and David Letterman, there will be entries from Dick Cavett and Jimmy Breslin on ABC, Joan Rivers on the new Fox network, David Brenner and Oprah Winfrey in syndication and Robert Klein on cable's USA Network. That spatter of patter may also be why a veteran of TV's talkfests is leaving the lists. This week, after 23 years, Merv Griffin, 61, broadcasts his / 5,520th and final show. "It's tough to say good-bye," said the genial, gee- whiz...
...time the next generation of students reaches college age, revered works of literature such as Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick may no longer be foremost in the American literary canon, according to four Harvard professors who spoke yesterday at the symposium, "Reexamining Masterpieces: Changes in the American Literary Canon...
...anyone has a chance of laying out a sound middle path for U.S. policy, it is Lugar. Late last week, Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, one of the Senate's most vehement supporters of tough sanctions, said, "I will truly listen to whatever Dick Lugar has to say on South Africa, and I think there's a reasonable prospect he will propose something with real teeth...