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But the signal caller with the inside track on today's starting assignment (despite the fact that Restic will not make if official until about an hour before game time) is junior Larry Brown. Brown, the flaky but superbly gifted two-sport athlete (also a starting pitcher on the baseball...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Lost in The Shuffle-And Only One Winning Card | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

"Bob Scalise, the Radcliffe soccer coach, once told me there are two kinds of athletes, the naturally gifted once and the ones who just bust tail," Malkin said. "I'm certainly not the naturally gifted type, and if I couldn't make it this year with all the work I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Close to the Edge: Hanging Tough Through Cuts | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

A third quarter field goal by Peruvian soccer player Dave Schwartz (Dave Schwartz?) boosted the Eli margin to 10-0 before Whipple cranked up Brown's offense in the final quarter, as he hit Mark Farnham, gifted sibling of last year's Brown star, Bob, on a 52-yard touchdown...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Yale, Dartmouth and Penn Take Ivy Grid Openers | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Defense Counsel Geoffrey Robertson defended Kirkup's poem as "a genuine expression of how one man came to love God . . . a devotional poem by a gifted poet," but the jury was not impressed. By a vote of 10 to 2, it convicted both Lemon and Gay News. The judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: On Trial for Blasphemy | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

Dick Young, gifted, didactic and the senior baseball writer in Manhattan, forecast the imminent firing of Billy Martin, the Yankee manager. "Billy had the world by the fine hair, and he has loused it up," Young wrote with consistent, if unappealing imagery.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY: Encountering the Yankees | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

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