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Tight end Don Gajewski won the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award, given to the team's most valuable player. Gajewski caught 40 passes for 533 yards and four touchdowns. His 40 receptions are the most for a Harvard tight...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Gicewicz Named Gridder Captain; Gajewski Captures MVP Award | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...some ways, Superman's relentless virtue goes even beyond virtue. In his extraterrestrial origins and the shining purity of his altruism, some commentators have detected a divine aura. "Superman, I've always thought, is an angel," says Andrew Greeley, gadfly Roman Catholic priest and best-selling novelist. "Probably the angel stories found in all of the world's religions are traces of the work in our world of Superman and his relatives. Who is to say I'm wrong?" Proponents of the angel theory believe it is no accident that when Superman is in full flight, his flared collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Junior quarterback Tom Yohe earned the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award, the equivalent of the team's Most Valuable Player. This year, Yohe broke all of Harvard's singleseason passing records...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: And to the Victors Come the Spoils | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

Megamillionaire Simon says he is simply following Horace Greeley's famous dictum by going west with his money. He has taken some high-powered talent with him in the investment partnership known as WSGP International. The head of WSGP's thrift unit is Preston Martin, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and onetime chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Gerald Parsky, a Los Angeles lawyer who served as Assistant Treasury Secretary under Simon, is his old boss's general partner and contributes his initials to the company's anagrammatic name. A select group of international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Empire Rising in the West | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...companies would have to choose to be either exclusively union or nonunion. Labor leaders believe the law would produce more unionized shops, but some companies indicate they might try to shut out their unions. Such is the case at Phelps Inc., a 2,000-employee construction firm based in Greeley, Colo., that engages in double-breasting. Insists Co-Owner Robert Ruyle: "The unions are shooting themselves in the foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Angst on Capitol Hill | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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