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...Harvard's Yardling booters mauled a hapless M.I.T. freshman team, 11-1. last Friday afternoon at M.I.T. to remain undefeated and untied. The potent Crimson offense employed speed and adept passing to overwhelm the Engineers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV, Yardling Soccer Squads Roll To Easy Victories Over Weekend | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

...married, author of two slim volumes of poetry, creative writing teacher at a provincial college-Willie O'Toole has endured a lot. But until you read through Lebowitz's description of it all, you can't possibly appreciate how much. Lebowitz has Willie lead us through his odyssey of hapless existence, a trip that takes us through the nitty-gritty of all four marriages (in the past), at least three affairs (in the present), and a large part of the American terrain (past and present). It could be pretty grim going, but thanks to Willie's indomitable chutzpah, the intrinsic...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: From the Shelf Climbing Willie's Ladder | 10/16/1969 | See Source »

...Crimson varsity football team opened its Ivy League competition by posting its most inhumane score ever against an Ivy League team. The Harvard football machine rolled over the hapless Lions, 51-0, Saturday afternoon at Soldiers' Field...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Harvard Muffles Lions Roar, 51-0 | 10/14/1969 | See Source »

...fearful night, at least 235 were killed. Property damage was estimated at $1 billion. Cars and houses were smashed like toys, trucks tumbled end over end, giant freighters tossed about and beached. For a time, the ocean reclaimed as much as six blocks of Pass Christian, Gulfport and other hapless Mississippi towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KILLER CAMILLE: THE GREATEST STORM | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

Archer's professional progress is also impeded by his, and his creator's, strivings to bring home to each and every hapless character the wrong turnings in his past. One longs for Chandler's jaunty, corpse-chasing Philip Marlowe: "Murder-a-Day Marlowe, they call him. They have the meat wagon following him around to follow up the business he finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Detection Pushed Too Far | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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