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Almost all, that is, for eight minutes into the second quarter, it missed one, a 41-yard floater down the right sideline from Burns to Fred Sullivan, which resulted in the former's touchdown jaunt two plays later...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: One Down, Eight to Go: Harvard 21, Columbia 7 | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...Free Floater. In Talking to Myself Terkel, 65, is listening to his memories. What he chiefly recalls are the people he has met and the stories he has been told. As an autobiographer, Terkel is modest to the point of evasion. Given the chance to tell all about himself, he elects to tell almost nothing. "I'm constantly play-acting," he says with unusual self-consciousness during an interview with Ivy Compton-Burnett. "Here, with you, I begin to talk like you. When I'm with a Chicago hoodlum, I talk like him. I'm a chameleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Listening to the Voice of the Terkel | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

During the bad years, if you took the "D" Train up to the Bronx and the Stadium, you could look forward to ducking firecrackers and waiting to see if Steve Hamilton would throw his famous Folly Floater (a high arc-lob which one day sent a bad-tempered Cleveland Indian literally crawling on his belly back to the dugout after he had whiffed three times on it; this the same day Bobby Murcer hit four consecutive home runs in the Next Mickey contest and Ray Fosse got hit by a cherry bomb which came flying from the second deck after...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Back in the Ballpark | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

...Folly Floater...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Wesleyan Edges Crimson Booters, 2-1 | 10/1/1976 | See Source »

Later in the first half, the speedy Cardinal right wing streaked past Crimson left wing Bob Carey and cut to the inside. He barely managed to get a foot on a long crossfield feed, launching a folly floater toward the Harvard goal...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Wesleyan Edges Crimson Booters, 2-1 | 10/1/1976 | See Source »

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