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His biography consists of little more than a professor's résumé: son of a collector of customs; student at Oxford; a popular lecturer at Edinburgh University; tutor to the young Duke of Buccleuch; full professor of logic and then of moral philosophy at Glasgow; and author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Revolutionary of Oeconomy | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

"I have one of the great forearms in tennis," suggested Political Trickster Dick Tuck. "To strain my arm in this would have been foolish, so I didn't." Tuck's comments were a waggish explanation for his defeat in the Esquire Gala Celebrity Mixed Invitational Arm-Wrestling Tourney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 12, 1975 | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

The 1967 London and Broadway hit that catapulted an obscure Tom Stoppard to fame and chic respectability, Rosencrantz focuses on the bewildering world of the two minor characters in Hamlet and their hellish and condemned existence in a play they do not understand. A madcap Danish prince reels drunkenly in...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: Not Hamlet, Nor Meant to Be | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

Stones complained that an official distracted him during his two-minute pre-jump crouch by calling out the time remaining and breaking his concentration.

Author: By William E.STEDMAN Jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 2/20/1975 | See Source »

"All that stuff I read after the meet was 'kind of funny," Embree said, "The one that cracks me up was that he was distracted. They didn't do that to anyone on my side and I really don't remember them doing it on Stones's side."

Author: By William E.STEDMAN Jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 2/20/1975 | See Source »

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