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Ignoring today's mature, spirited, no longer provincial Los Angeles Times opens Griffith to a charge of Eastern seaboard provincialism. Griffith's "by common consent" certainly does not include those of us privileged to read and enjoy the finest newspaper in the West, if not the entire country...
...captain Jim Vaughan was the hero in red, picking up a three-goal, hat trick and adding an assist in one of his finest performances of the year. The senior's final tally, an unassisted breakaway at 17:43 of the third period, capped the game scoring and gave Cornell its 13th win in 19 starts this season...
...other end of the ice, the Crimson's Brian Petrovek gave the customers what they came to see as well, matching Skidmore's dives with a few sprawls of his own in the finest Beanpot performance of his career...
Whatever be the truth, it's a shame that this gourmand's delight and the namesake of this country's finest collegiate hockey tourney has to be subjected to such maltreatment. While the time for apology is long past, it's still not too late. Beans are forgiving legumes--they live for more than just revenge and motorcycles...
...finest hour, of course, was Watergate, which it now finds hard to live up to. Watergate made folk heroes and millionaires out of Woodward and Bernstein, sent up Bradlee's ego when he saw Jason Robards' fine film portrayal of him in All the President's Men, and in the face of economic and political threats to the paper, proved Publisher Katharine Graham's courage. Hard to top all that-last year's exposure of Congressman Wayne Hays and his dolly seems much less momentous. Cartoonist Herblock is bereft without Nixon to kick around...