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...Donovan, who rubs wintergreen on his elbow to warm it up before he wrestles, was one of the few non-Harvard competitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wristwrestling Draws Crowd | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

...time we hit Baltimore she was polluted and getting rancher every minute. Having had enough of this Blanche DuBois-Belle Reve trip, I pretended to go to sleep, but this wasn't good enough for her. She kept whacking me in the side with her incredibly sharp little elbow. I still have the bruises...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Amtrak Blues | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...could be hobbled by a new problem: he has diabetes. But team doctors stress that his condition can be controlled with medication, and other top athletes have played successfully despite the disease.* Don Gullett also struggled through last season with shoulder miseries, and newly acquired Andy Messersmith underwent offseason elbow surgery. If healthy, however, the Yankee pitchers could be awesome: together they have won 443 major league games. That should be good enough for another fun-filled and tension-packed episode of As the World Series Turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Togetherness in Fort Lauderdale | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...made her first big splash ten years ago, as a body-painted bikini girl on the old Laugh-In show. Now Goldie Hawn has switched to basketball scrimmages with the Harlem Globetrotters. "Playing with these guys, you've got to keep a stiff elbow and a stiff upper lip," explained the 5-ft. 6-in. Hawn, who taped the meeting for her March 1 TV special on CBS. More elbow and less lip might have worked better. Against the Globetrotters, Goldie came up short. ∙ During a vacation trip to Argentina last summer, Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1978 | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...short, Andy Schmidt is a showoff, a permanent elbow in the eye of polite society. One can only be awed by the comic daring of everyone concerned with The One and Only for trying to make such a character appealing for the length of a movie. The One and Only does not quite make it, because even as portrayed by the likable Henry Winkler, Andy is finally a tiresome fellow. But the effort is a game one, and there is a certain originality about the fate that the film works out for Andy. Having failed as an actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Show-Off | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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