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This season marks the 101st year of Harvard football, but whether the Crimson will kick off its second century of gridiron action as successfully as it ended its first 100 years is an open question at this point...
When a President gives good will, it is hard not to return it, as Democrat Strauss found out at a recent Gridiron dinner. Strauss got up and, as is the custom, deftly skewered the Republicans and verbally poked the President. Ford did not try to combat such wit with more wit. Instead, he turned and praised Strauss as a man of high purpose and ability, someone who could be President himself. Those around Strauss were sure they heard the Democrat muller, as he glowed in the tribute, "Why, the son of a bitch...
...Steinem turned taxi-dancer for one $65 song; off to the side, Washington Post Watergate Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward sold phony spy disguises. In the kissing booth, Veteran Socialite Barbara Howar demonstrated her wares to Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. The occasion: the second annual Counter Gridiron dinner, held to raise money for a journalists' legal-defense fund and the hackles of Washington's venerable, mostly male Gridiron Club. While Treasury Secretary William Simon and Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan dueled with water guns, dart throwers popped balloons attached to the pictures of Presidential Hopefuls Ronald...
Goldwin screens his potential guest stars as carefully as a pro football scout checks out college gridiron talent. Be fore each meeting he painstakingly explores possible avenues of conversation with each participant, managing in the end to ensure that thinkers with various viewpoints will speak to the same issue. Goldwin puts a premium on spontaneity but sometimes fears that the academics will waste the President's time with trivia. In preparation for the first dinner-seminar he held, he spent at least five hours with each guest and bluntly informed them that he considered some of their ideas peripheral...
Senior wide receiver Pat McInally last night was presented the George Bulger Lowe award from the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston. McInally becomes the 36th New England college football player, and the fifth from Harvard, to win this award for "excellence in performance and value to his team...