Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard may win a national championship this season. Whatever the record of this fine team may be, I intend to enjoy watching them play, and success would please no fan more than myself. But I'm afraid I must resign myself to having my enjoyment diminished by the rude, stupid behavior of a few imbeciles who don't seem to understand what the sport is about. Sincerely, Stephen Spaulding...
...Beebe and a chuff of Cervantes thrown in. Frimbo-the "world's greatest railroad buff'-is the brain child of Rogers E.M. Whitaker, who has himself bumpety-thumped across 2,334,000 miles of rails from Moscow, Russia to Moscow, Ill. By inventing Frimbo-lexicographer, gourmet, jazz fan, connoisseur of contessas and, of course, compulsive investigator of trains-Whitaker has transmuted what might have been a soda-water sermon on the glory and decline of the trains into a Jules Vernean adventure that takes him from the Casbah to the Caspian Sea, Buffalo to Kyoto...
...Other trains that he recalls, now "annulled forever, the tracks torn up." include the old Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn, India's His Highness the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, and that sans pareil the London-Edinburgh Flying Scotsman, now privately owned by a wealthy English railroad fan...
...Crimson basketball fan, last night's heartrending loss to UMass was extremely depressing. Harvard led throughout the second half, only to relinquish its advantage, and the ball-game, in the last two minutes...
...accompany the closely confined and womanless crew the U.S. may send on a two-year mission to Mars before the end of the century. That would enable the Mars astronauts to engage in the longest-established, permanent floating space game in history. Says Bluffton College Psychology Professor (and Monopoly Fan) William J. Beausay: "All men have to have a strong motivator to compensate for loss of sex for two years." The board, no doubt, will be redesigned to take note of such choice Martian real estate as Elysium, Electris, Hellas and Nix Olympica...