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Those hopes were extinguished almost immediately by the Clemson Tigers, whose roster includes such ominous-sounding names as Nnamdi Nwokocha (fr., Nigeria), Obed Ariri (sr., Nigeria), Godwin Ogbueze (sr., Nigeria) and Vincent Chika (fr., Nigeria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia's Hot Soccer Team Freezes in NCAA Tournament | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...imagination, but the facts of Mary Shelley's life do point toward the direction she took. She was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, an author and pioneering feminist who died of a retained placenta eleven days after little Mary's birth in 1797. Her father was William Godwin, a novelist and Utopian planner. Despite his free-living principles, Godwin acted outraged as any bourgeois papa when Mary, then 16, ran off with Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. In Percy, the impressionable Mary found a dreamer like her father, but several times larger than life. She absorbed much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man-Made Monster | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...rebound, the Gamecocks pushed their weight around underneath, knocking Harvard hoopsters about like bowling pins. Before you could say Johnny Petraglia, there was McLaughlin, crimson with rage, busting a gut at refs Bobby Godwin, Dan Woolridge, and Charlie Diehl, all of whom failed to call a loose-ball foul on the Gamecocks...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Gamecocks Top Crimson; Rally Fails In 85-71 Loss | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

Holtz, who is part coach, part faith healer and part song-writer, tried to reverse the dry rot afflicting the slumping Jets under Charlie Winner by dealing away highly-touted cornerback Roscoe Word and linebacker Godwin Turk and benching Alcorn A&M graduate Rich Sowells in favor of Schaefer Suggs, who was burned for a 79-yd. scoring hook-up between Bert Jones and Roger Carr on Sunday...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: EI Sid | 10/30/1976 | See Source »

Long considered the most racially reactionary state, Mississippi briefly flared in violence, then integrated with a speed that astonished even its neighbors. Governor Mills Godwin of Virginia spoke for more than his home state when he said, "The racial issue is largely behind us because Virginians have a strong sense of law-and-order." Federal Judge James McMillan of Charlotte, N.C., echoed that North Carolinians would "litigate until hell freezes over, but when it freezes over, they'll go on about their business. The law is the law, and they respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: The Spirit of The South | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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