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...that juncture, the Crimson had stayed alive mainly with the impressive outside shooting of Tom Mannix, probably the finest pure shooter in the Ivies, who turned in 5-7, 14 point, first-half performance...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Princeton Tigers Embarrass Hoopsters | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

...travel and exploration, from Mont Blanc to the Crimea to the Nile. A photographic task force was even commissioned by the French government to rove the country photographing historic monuments (rather like Roy Stryker's famous teams in the U.S. during the 1930s Depression). One of the finest results is a highly abstract portrait of a row of flying buttresses at Rheims Cathedral, shot in diminishing perspective by Henri Le Secq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: The Sense of a Magic New Gift | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...came to the meetings wearing ski togs instead of business suits and parked the rest of their sports gear at the door. Said one who attended: "You'd feel naked here without your skis." At night the almost exclusively male executives and their female companions dressed in the finest evening wear and quaffed magnums of champagne, while Pepe Lienhard's band at Davos' Kongresshaus played tangos, cha cha chas and Glenn Miller favorites. The business and financial situation in Europe cannot be all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magic Meeting Place: Europe's corporate chiefs go to Davos for play?and work | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...beneath the basket. The true measure of his greatness was the glint in his eyes, the concentrated, almost maniacal fury that burned when he leaped to block a shot or scanned the floor before rifling an outlet pass on a fast break. That intensity made Walton one of the finest and most feared centers of his generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bone of Contention | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...Wellmans chose MGH as the site of the new center because it is "the finest hospital in the nation equipped to deal with research," Wellman said yesterday. He added he gave to the center to "keep MGH tops...

Author: By Leslie J. Smith, | Title: MGH Gets $15 Million For New Center | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

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