Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Tom Mannix and Don Fleming carressing the twines from long range, with freshman dynamo Calvin Dixon adding a touch of flash and sophomore Robert Taylor contributing a bit of poise, Harvard looked capable of upending the proud Texans. And no one realized that more than the master of verbal voraciousness himself, Texas coach Abe Lemons...
...redheaded dynamo admits to no hobbies off the field--except sports. She loves skiing and racquetball, runs and lifts weights daily, and plans to play rugby this spring for the Boston Women's Rugby Club...
DIED. Armi Ratia, 67, Finnish designer and the dynamo behind Marimekko, the internationally known fabric and fashion house; after a long illness; in Helsinki. In 1949 Ratia quit her advertising job to write a novel and help salvage her husband's threadbare oilcloth company. The novel never was written, but the firm with Ratia as president took shape in 1951 as Marimekko (translation: a little dress for Mary). Ratia's bold-hued, clear-figured prints and the functional clothes she cut from them became Finland's hottest export since the sauna...
DIED. Samuel I. Newhouse, 84, newspaper publisher who built the U.S.'s third largest chain (daily circ. 3.2 million); of a stroke; in Manhattan. A shy 5 ft. 2 in. dynamo who said that not being noticed "is the advantage of being a shrimp," Newhouse got big in newspapers quietly. Beginning in 1922, he acquired a succession of rundown papers and turned them into a string of profit makers that stretched from Alabama to Oregon. In the 1950s he started buying already lucrative properties, among them Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue. His family-owned dominion...
Leon Collins, "The Dance Dynamo" of the 40s, is tapping again...