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...sold refurbished aircraft and started an air service ferrying gamblers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. On layovers in Vegas he took an interest in gambling, especially craps, and parlayed the proceeds from various ventures into real estate and casinos, seeing promise in the town "when it was just dirt," says a colleague. By the early '70s, well into his second marriage, to a former Vegas show girl, he was buying movie studios, investing in gambling businesses and making bids for airlines. Eventually he moved on to Chrysler, though Iacocca once said "he really doesn't have any interest...
Next, we moved on to infield drills where I got in line to take a pair of sharp ground balls. When my turn came, I smoothed the dirt with my sneakers and got my leather down in position. And bobbled the roller. In my haste to recover, I rushed the throw, sailing it high and beaning assistant coach Erica Morgenstein—innocently standing and chatting with a player—squarely in the back...
Rebecca J. Alaly ’04-’05 advertises her latest choreography work in “The Oresteia” as having “severed heads, dirt, blood, and meat.” The Loeb Mainstage Production, based on the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, tells a tale of murderous revenge within a single family...
Rebecca J. Alaly ’04-’05 advertises her latest choreography work in “The Oresteia” as having “severed heads, dirt, blood, and meat.” The Loeb Mainstage Production, based on the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, tells a tale of murderous revenge within a single family...
...essential art of covering the infield? We may not have won a lot of games, but we sure got the best of that tarpaulin. Our grounds crew experience is perhaps the one edge we hold over the varsity in baseball-related activities. The speed with which we blanketed the dirt as the raindrops began to fall last Saturday marks, I’m sure, the all-time Harvard record. You may not find it in the books next to Zak Farkes’ 14 home run season, but that doesn’t mean it isn?...