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Then it was Schernecker's turn. The 6-ft., 7-in. banger had appeared hapless in Harvard's opening game of the season, commiting four turnovers and three fouls in 11 minutes...
Many of the people in these pictures do hard physical labor, working in mines, on ranches and in slaughterhouses. Some have tumbled into the abyss: prisoners, mental patients or that hapless segment that Avedon labels simply as "drifter." All of them, from secretaries to millworkers, live in a very different West from the pristine territories of the landscape photographers. Theirs is a place of trials and disappointments, and their faces specify every cent of the cost...
...last night's 86-50 massacre of a hapless MIT squad in front of 300 fans at Briggs Athletic Cage confirmed that fact...
...reality, not even Noah's Ark could save the drowning Bulldogs at this point--and the goal-hungry Crimson romped all over the hapless hosts to move into a tie for third place in the Ivies...
...salesman is now being made into a TV movie for PBS in New York City. The film, being produced by former Princeton students of Bellow's, has delighted the author, and last week he visited the set to make a cameo appearance walking down a hotel corridor past his hapless protagonist, Tommy Wilhelm, played by Robin Williams. The Nobel laureate has no ambitions about an Emmy. "I don't expect to add anything unless something of my absurdity comes through," says Bellow the actor. Bellow the writer was not tempted by the medium either. "I was approached to write...