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...unfair to compare Carew, whose forte is hitting for average, to players who excel and surpass Carew in other aspects of the game, like Reggie Jackson and Joe Morgan...
Turner's reputation as the "Mouth of the South"-whether on land, at sea or hi Bowie Kuhn's hair-has tended to obscure his extraordinary sailing skill. He began to sail when, as a boy, he was too small and uncoordinated to excel at any other sport. "I didn't have a lot of natural athletic ability," says the immodest man modestly, "but this was a game that took nerves and brains and heart. And I had a lot of heart. I could hang in there." Hang in he did, and over the years, Turner emerged...
Royce N. Flippin Jr., athletic director at Princeton, disagrees with Mackey. "The real key is not what sport it is, or whether it's Ivy League or not, it's the quality of the program. If the student thinks he or she can excel he'll come, hardnosed inner-city kid or not." But Flippin admits that personal contact between coaches and players is often necessary to remove misconceptions about Ivy League athletics--especially in sports such as basketball and wrestling, two "inner-city" sports in which Princeton is the Ivy League champion...
...surface message, the "never-say-die" competitiveness that pulls Teddy through hard times and tough fights, literally assaults the audience. Alden litters the play with examples of Roosevelt's "bully-ness". A frail, asthmatic child painfully builds his body into the epitome of physical fitness and manages to excel athletically at, of all places, Harvard College (from which Roosevelt graduated in 1880, and which he describes in the play as teeming with "intensely languid" people). Stricken with grief at the age of 26 when both his mother and his first wife die on the same day, Roosevelt abandons a budding...
...common consent, the two best newspapers in America are the New York Times (daily circulation: 803,123) and the Washington Post (530,031) -and they far excel the rest. Most Americans seldom see them, but both are thoroughly read by those on the air or in print who bring others the national news Now the nation's best newspaper has just restyled itself as the New New York Times; and when so pivotal an institution changes, something important is being said about American journalism. It is as if a dignified old lady, much revered in her own stately...