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...thought he had struck out, began surging onto the field, the great New York Yankee slugger waved them back with a gesture that would have done credit to the mythical Casey. Holding up two fingers, he shouted, "It takes only one to hit it." Then he slammed his historic homer...
...Morse's defense, it can only be said that his invective was impartial and bipartisan. He accused Harry Truman of putting on "one of the cheapest exhibitions of ham acting I have ever seen." He said that Lyndon Johnson was "drunk with power." The corpulent G.O.P. Senator Homer Capehart was a "tub of rancid ignorance...
...Fogg has a lovely little exhibit of American watercolors tucked away in one of its back galleries that includes works by Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. The Fogg doesn't really do all that much special with American art, especially non-contemporary works, all the more reason not to miss this treat. The museum's PR person, Janet Cox, says her art friends all think that the Fogg's Homers and Sargents are as good as the ones hanging in the MFA, and Janet wouldn't try to fool you. The exhibit has to come down soon because...
While discrimination by males has a great deal to do with the small number of women leaders, women's concept of themselves may also be a significant obstacle. Psychologist Matina Homer, now president of Radcliffe College, found a fear among college women that professional advance can come only at the expense of femininity. To Cynthia Fuchs Epstein of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, what is most frightening is "the punishment" a woman suffers, because of the male-oriented values of society, if she achieves success...
Dwight Evan hoisted a Vida Blue fastball down the right field line for a three-run homer and Luis Tiant scattered six Oakland hits to lead the Red Sox to a 4-1 triumph over the A's last night in Fenway Park...