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...been Harvard's day from the beginning. No. 6 man Chris Nielsen put together his best match of the spring to erase Penn's Andy Finn, 6-0, 6-2, and junior Tom Loring swept Quaker Chris Sadkowski at four, 6-2, 6-3, to supply the Crimson with two quick points. From there, though, it was a little more difficult. All four other Harvard singles men had lost their first sets, and the Penn players, aware that a loss by any one of them could result in a defeat for the team, were playing with a cautious brilliance...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Tennis Team Humiliates Pennsylvania, 8-1, Masterson, Lindner Win in Classic Matches | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...also won the Geiger Trophy on Sunday with Tufts and the University of Rhode Island also ahead of Harvard. Putnam with John Dodge and Brownlee with Doug Libby took third and fifth respectively in the two dinghy divisions. John Bowers was third in the Finn Class, while Middendorf, Clem Wood, and White finished second in the sloop class...

Author: By Bradford B. Kopp, | Title: Sailing Team Places Fourth In First Race of the Season | 4/19/1972 | See Source »

...first book, The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TIME, March 2, 1970), John Seelye rewrote Mark Twain as an answer to nearly a century of carping critics. In The Kid, he makes American folklore and literary archetypes jump through hoops, in obvious appreciation of Leslie Fiedler's remark that "to understand the West as somehow a joke comes a little closer to getting it straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spring Cleaning | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...shouldn't surprise you. In those days I was always being compared to Huckleberry Finn. You know how he ended? According to Mark Twain, as a "justice of the peace in a remote village in Montana, and was a good citizen and greatly respected." If you get slipped a Finn like that, what can you reasonably expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Holden Today: Still in the Rye | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...friends and enemies and gets into all kinds of jams, from which Jeeves inevitably extricates him. The club book turns up, of course, in the hands of a villainous butler, with possibly devastating consequences for Bertie and Ginger. Jeeves, however, recovers it by slipping the butler a Mickey Finn, or, as he puts it, by inserting "a chemical substance in his beverage which had the effect of rendering him temporarily insensible." Everything turns out well in the end: Ginger gets the heave-ho from Florence and finds true love, the club book is returned to its proper place, minus...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: With the Rarity of a Performing Flea | 1/12/1972 | See Source »

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