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Meet Percy Haughton, Class of 1889, an All-American tackle and football coach from 1908 to 1916, looking like a face out of Brideshead Revisited. Meet Bill McCurdy--McCurdy to his friends--who molded the track program for 30 years. Meet the Cleary brothers, the Hughes brothers and the Fusco brothers, maintaining a tradition of sibling-led excellence...
MEET PERCY Haughton, Class of 1899, an All-American tackle and football coach from 1908 to 1916, looking like a face out of Brideshead Revisited. Meet Bill McCurdy--McCurdy to his friends--who molded the track program for 30 years. Meet the Cleary brothers, the Hughes brothers, and the Fusco brothers, maintaining a tradition of sibling-led excellence...
...Haughton Murphy is the pseudonym of a fiftyish partner in a prestigious New York City law firm. The chief strength of his mystery Murder for Lunch (Simon & Schuster; 268 pages; $14.95) is its bemused glimpses of professional folkways. Murphy dryly observes how the size of the briefcase indicates an attorney's status: junior associates haul home thick wads of raw documents in bulky bags, while partners take away the distillate of that material: a few sheets in a thin leather envelope. He deftly sketches the ballets of protocol between august attorneys and rich parvenu clients, the ugly skirmishing between partners...
Hatred of Handsome Dan may even date back to 1908, when Harvard Coach Percy Haughton was said to have strangled a bulldog in the locker room...
Apparently, though, this was an Eli-inspired exaggeration. In fact, Haughton merely tied a papier mache bulldog to his car and dragged it around town. More recently, however, Handsome Dan has been left in peace, as pranksters have taken a healthier direction...