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...meter mark we caught distance and never relinquished the lead." cox Rosemarie A. Sabatino said with a wet grin as the emerged from the Charles...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Lightweights Garner Top Spots; Heavies Falter, Finish Second | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Heather had a particularly silly grin on her face as she trudged to Littauer, but she didn't care. Thesis writers were lounging around, munching on cookies and Swedish meatballs. Heather set down her two copies. A tutor asked her if she wanted beer, wine, or some of Kentucky's finest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREATION OF A THESIS | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...boring," he added, "a bit like Evel Knievel on his motorcycle." He was glad that the deciding race of the season was the giant slalom, the technically most demanding of the races. Next? asked a reporter. "A summer doing absolutely no skiing," was the answer. Then Mahre, with a grin, returned to the subject at hand. "Ah, but you know, it's really the thing, that World Cup. Three events in top skiing. It's the best in the world you can ever hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Hill | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

When he was producing stories for men's magazines like Male and Stag, Martin Cruz Smith once watched a colleague waltzing down the hall waving a check for six figures and wearing "a grin that met in the back of his throat." Recalls the author: " 'One day,' I thought, 'I'll be doing the same dance as Mario Puzo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Moral, Exportable Sleuth | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...home baseball games, when a minimal telegraphed strike-or-ball message had to be fleshed out into an imaginative description of a game unseen. For Reagan (called Dutch then, though unlike Cronkite he has no Dutch in him) it was good actor's training. Cronkite says with a grin: "If I'd been Dutch Cronkite and stayed with baseball, I might be President now." Instead, this week he is interviewing the President. For Cronkite those game broadcasts were valuable experience in ad-libbing, but also an introduction to show biz in the presentation of the news, a subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: The Age of Cronkite Passes | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

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