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...year and a half after the University of Indiana fired Bobby Knight, its legendary bully of a basketball coach, many Indianans still pine for his vitriolic courtside presence. But his successor, MIKE DAVIS, went some way in filling Knight's big sneakers last week when Indiana upset Duke, the defending national champion, 74-73 in the NCAA tournament. Davis grew up in crushing poverty in Alabama and had careers in football and basketball before he started coaching. An African American in a state with a history pockmarked by racism and a stutterer who struggles through press conferences, Davis has received...
With the sting of that setback still fresh in its mind, the Crimson headed into its toughest challenge of the season last Saturday at Duke, where the No. 10 Blue Devils staved off a late Harvard surge to prevail...
...Duke 10, Harvard...
Life as a royal, however, was not a role she coveted. "You'll be a lucky fellow if she accepts you," King George V is said to have warned his second son, Prince Albert, Duke of York, when he embarked upon courting the small, sapphire-eyed Lady Elizabeth. Sure enough, a persistent rumor has it that she rejected the prince's first proposal in 1921. Two years later, however, she decided to accept, and the two were wed amid a trumpeting of pageantry in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth and Albert were in their 14th year of a quiet marriage and were...
...buzzed a cordon of courtiers - the famous, the has-beens and wannabe's - and their representatives, the press agents, fighting to catch the columnist's attention and get an item (a joke, a movie deal, a simple "was glimpsed confabbing with...") in his daily mix of gossip. Like a duke's dresser in the court of the Sun King, a press agent sees his client at his worst and must present him at his best. The trick was to paint a heroic portrait, of a person with plenty to hide, and sell it to a columnist who'll sell...