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Playing before nearly 100 spectators yesterday morning, the Crimson nine nipped Brown, 5-4, when Boutilier slammed a two-run homer and notched her second victory of the weekend...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Softball Squad Finishes Third at Ivies | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...earlier, more impish days, TIME, inspired by Homer's "wine-dark sea," fastened labels on everything in sight and endlessly repeated them. New York's mayor was always "fireplug-shaped Fiorello La Guardia"; the city's newspaper, in a phrase that combined admiration with gentle sarcasm, was "the good gray New York Times." So familiar was this practice that Johnny Mercer parodied it in a Broadway show tune, Affable, Balding Me. TIME'S double-barreled labels came to a quiet end when a later managing editor, T.S. Matthews, forbade the use of them unless a writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Stuck with Labels | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

After Martelli's run-scoring triple in Harvard's half of the first. Holy Cross scored again in the third to take a 2-1 advantage. Martelli erased that for good in the Harvard third with his two-run homer. Harvard added single runs in both the fifth and the sixth to ice the win. At Soldier's Field HARVARD HOLY CROSS AB R H BI Gary Quinian, cf 4 1 1 0 Vin Eruzione, 2b 3 0 0 0 Pat O'Reilly, dh 4 0 0 0 Dave Stenhouse, c 3 0 0 2 Jim Vest...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Nine Purges Holy Cross, 5-2; Curtin Scatters Four Singles | 4/22/1981 | See Source »

...Crimson's solid hitting and the Unicorn's ineptitude continued for the next three innings. Betty 'she's so hot, you'll melt if you stand near her" Ippolito collected two hits--a single and a double--and two RBI's. Elaine Holpuch cracked her fourth homer of the season, and, in the bottom of the third, designated hitter Sarah LeBlond scored the 16th run of the game when three consecutive Smith errors let her circle the bases...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Softball Squad Demolishes Smith, 18-0 | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

Gary Allenson hit a three-run homer to lead the Red Sox to a 9-4 victory over Chicago yesterday in a game delayed an hour and a half by rain. In other baseball highlights: Andre Dawson's three hits helped Montreal defeat New York in the first game of a doubleheader, 4-3, but Dave Kingman's three-run homer in the nightcap propelled the Mets to a 7-2 victory in the nightcap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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