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...Joseph told his mother, "It's time we got together." He said that he thought he would be allowed to meet her in Finland. Once the possibility of a reunion became fixed in Svetlana's mind, it could not be dislodged. For this desperate woman, seeing Joseph appeared to herald a new beginning. Joseph then told Svetlana that he had not been granted permission after all to travel to Finland. Svetlana was shattered. Some time in July he raised her hopes again by saying he might be able to come to Cambridge before Christmas, but in August she was told...
...skins on the wall." Marino puts Roger Staubach in mind of Hockey Prodigy Wayne Gretzky. By the CBS-New York Times calculations, Marino is already the country's favorite N.F.L. player (Chicago's Walter Payton second, Montana third), and in the cautious view of the Miami Herald, "the best quarterback alive." Even Shula seems to cast Sunday's game mainly in the context of the wondrous season of this youngest quarterback ever to start a Super Bowl, just 23. "Everything Dan has done has been some kind of record," he says. "The records will be so much more meaningful...
...book's cover to become immersed in this early America. The two pages consist of a collage made from period New York Times clippings. Advertisements for 1912 roadsters, electrical engineer training courses endorsed by Thomas Edison, and a notice that Macy's Department Store will be moving to Herald Square accompany notice of a Washington Senators victory. Rube Marquard and Smokey Joe Wood no-hitters, and boxscores full of names like Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb and Fred Merkle. Indeed, Ritter introduces many players with excepts from Spalding's Base Ball Guide circa 1909, John J. McGraw's My Thirty Years...
Tsongas' story is at its most feverish as it describes his reactions to a reasonable Boston Herald story revealing his cancer, but headed by the screamer; "CANCER FORCES TSONGAS OUT." He writes: "The headline was crushing. The cancer story was out, and even though the story was proper, the headline would make the lasting impression. Forced out . . . How stupid. If cancer had forced me out, I would have retired three months...
Hark! The Herald Angels...