Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas and Leon Wagner, Third, 10. A softball league in Washington, 11. Elmer Valo. 12. The St. Louis Cardinals. 13. The Steelers took Len Dawson: the Browns. Jimmy Brown. 14. Doug Swift. 15. Layden, Studeher, Miller and Crawley. 16. The Chicago Bears...
Nineteen forty-two bore more resemblance to a normal year at Harvard than any of the next four. On May 1 of that year, a parody Crimson--which attributed itself to "The Spy Club"--appeared. Its editorial board was composed of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Elmer Davis, Ruless R. O. Penyons, and Arch Macleish, and their lead editorial, in flawless Crimson style, declared...
...Robert Northshield. "I didn't give one goddam who won the race. The minute I walk into the studio I always enjoy a suspension of citizenship." Still he was quick to recall that NBC had been the first to predict the Johnson victory in 1964. ABC News President Elmer Lower also demanded accuracy over immediacy-and put his network where his mouth was. Ronald Reagan, among others, had asked that broadcasters hold predictions until Western polls closed. ABC alone honored the request, thereby losing the first-with-the-least sweepstakes...
...Elmer Green, director of the Psychophysiology Laboratory at the Menninger Foundation, described new findings about the effectiveness of "biofeed-back." In this technique, the patient is taught to achieve some degree of control over such normally involuntary functions as heart rate and blood flow. Using electronic sensors that tell the patient when he has succeeded in altering some internal function, Green and others have been able to train patients to avoid or relieve migraine headaches, control the body processes that may cause ulcers, and raise and lower their body temperature...
...strange absence of shock value in the episodes of trickery recorded by this film. While the success of such blatant exploitation is dismaying, and the number of tricks employed prodigious, the real picture of a corrupt evangelist that Marjoeprojects almost duplicates the stereotype made popular by the fictional Elmer Gantry. It is a sad but true comment that the dishonesty illumined already seems logical in the context of evangelical religion...