Word: gray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just hits you enough to put you down. But those little guys are trying to take your head off; they really let down the boom on you." No matter what their target-gnat or giant-the little men can be big trouble. Is overcompensation, a Napoleon complex? Gray admits to a special joy in beating the big guys. Says he: "I like to look at the expressions on their faces after I beat them running a goal pattern. After I catch the ball, I look over my shoulder and watch them...
...that he does not get hit head on. "It's just like two trains colliding-the smaller one is going to take the most punishment." Johnson stares upfield at "an immovable mountain" and pours on the speed to run around it. St. Louis Cardinals Wide Receiver Mel Gray (5 ft. 9 in., 175 Ibs.) dislocated a shoulder trying to take out a bigger man and has since left the blocking to others. "Trying to be a hero, I ran into Dick Butkus. I missed the first five games of the season, and I learned my lesson." His teammate, Running...
...will be to satisfy those who have dreamed of striking out afresh but who never will. Like travel writers of old, McPhee has acted as the antenna in a far-off place that few will see. He has brought back a wholly satisfying voyage of spirit and mind. - Paul Gray...
NONFICTION: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni The River Congo, Peter Forbath
...undergraduates: William Muir ('54), a professor of political science at Berkeley, and Prosser Gifford ('51), a Rhodes scholar and dean of Amherst since 1967. Among Yale faculty members and administrators thought to be on the list are A. Bartlett Giamatti, director of humanities division, and Hanna Holborn Gray, Yale's provost and, after Brewster's resignation, acting president...