Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three of last week's big election winners-Ed Koch, Brendan Byrne and Carol Bellamy-got together with Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, New York Governor Hugh Carey and Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, they could form a little association. Its name: the Davey Garth Fan Club. All those potent pols are, or have been, the clients of David Garth, the nation's most sought-after campaign strategist. His record this year: five winners among six clients. Garth's secret? Says the hard-working consultant: "There are ad agency guys more creative than I and professional pols more...
...told a hockey fan of yesteryear that in 1978 there would occur a Women's Beanpot Tourney in ice hockey, he might have gone for the men in the white suits to come and take you away...
...that is what distinguishes The Honourable Schoolboy from the rest of the books on the "Mystery" shelf: it is, at bottom, a tremendous story, or more exactly, stories--for le Carre has conveniently woven in enough tangled subplots to keep not only the most devoted spy thriller fan, but also the most fascinated student of human nature, absorbed. What drives the le Carre fans is not absurd schemes to take over the world, nor, of course, masturbatory fantasies, replete with sadistic fiends and willing damsels-in-distress. Rather, these are stories about men and women struggling to keep their heads...
...maybe you've been too busy watching semi-goliaths Baggott, Savage Kaseta and Beiling, or maybe you've been too preoccupied tabulating Paul Halas's interceptions this season, but you can't call yourself a Harvard football fan if you've overlooked the strong season-long performance turned in by Crimson cornerback Steve Potysman...
...that you've read some of the fan mail -- and I'm laying all my cards on the table -- I'd like to thank Columbia's Leo de Lion, who picks the weekly Ivy contests from Morningside Heights, for presenting me with the 1977 Leo de Lion award, given annually to that person whose Ivy football prognostications and wit come closest to matching...