Word: exception
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...college baseball coach. Since World War II, Jones' teams have won 463 games and lost only 79 in the mostly Negro Southwestern Athletic Conference. But Grambling's big sport is football. It has 20 alumni on the pro rosters this year -more than any school except Notre Dame-including All-Pro Defensive End Willie Davis of the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs' defensive tackle, Junious ("Buck") Buchanan, an A.F.L. All-Star...
...Hewitson and Terry O'Donovan. The main blood vessels were clamped in much the same way as Denise's had been, but in this case the heart-lung machine was to serve a directly opposite purpose: to circulate oxygenated blood through all of Washkansky's body except his about-to-be-discarded heart...
Sooner or later the TV watcher who tunes in on a talk show is likely to decide that he could make more stimulating conversation himself. Harold Greenwood of Minneapolis is no exception-except that he decided to prove the thesis by buying two minutes of air time each week (at $102 a minute) and producing a show with himself as star...
Jeweled Eggs. For all his quirks, Henry had a remarkable eye. Without relying on professional advice, except occasionally from Bernard Berenson, he rambled all over Europe, picking up Italian primitives, Byzantine silver, Renaissance bronzes and Persian ceramics. He sailed into St. Petersburg on his yacht to buy Faberge jeweled eggs...
...novel of comic pitchblende. His lackluster drama is a kind of catchall-22, a wastebasket version of antiwar cliches too feeble for use in the novel. While the production is securely mounted by the Yale School of Drama Repertory Theater, student actors are scarcely in evidence except as bit players. The professional credentials of the leading performers suggest that Yale is becoming a theatrical busman's holiday from off-Broadway...