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Walk-ons occasionally make it in Ivy League basketball, but don't count on it at Harvard with bigtime Digger Phelps-disciple Francis X. "Frank" McLaughlin moving into his second year. Harvard upset Penn at the dungeon-like IAB last year, signaling the shape of things to come. By the time the class of '82 has graduated--assuming McLaughlin stays--former doormat Harvard will have joined Penn and Princeton as Ivy powers, and maybe as a national power...
...story of an Orwellian attempt (in 1981) to turn Britain into a fascist state, led by a fanatical Muslim group riding high on Arab oil and abetted by some of England's leading politicians. The conspiracy is defused by Bill Ellison, a brilliant Fleet Street digger whose investigative team resembles the London Sunday Times's muckraking groups. Salisbury gives his improbable tale crackling credibility-and is already working on a sequel...
...show, the Duke basketball team arrived at the hotel the crowd jammed into the lobby and chanted "We Got the Fever, We're Hot We Can't Be Stopped," as the individual players filtered through the doors Soon the song changed to "We Don't Give a Damn About Digger, Digger Digger Phelps (three times), We're from D-U-K-E, Duke." As expected, Notre Dame will be Duke's first-round opponent next weekend in St. Louis...
Penders and Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin are both members of a new breed of young, aggressive coaches who have earned their noms de guerre as recruiters. McLaughlin, who before coming to Harvard recruited hoopsters for Notre Dame as Digger Phelps' assistant, finds the recruiting game so strenuous that he believes no basketball coach can expect his career to exceed ten years...
Frank McLaughlin not only got his temper from Digger Phelps, he also copped his wardrobe...