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...back as 1909 a Carnegie expedition found two headless Brontosaurus skeletons in Utah with an elongated skull lying a few feet away. But by the time the bones had arrived back East, a smaller skull was found mixed with the larger dinosaur skeletons, making an improbable Mutt-and-Jeff match, so the discovery was ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skull and Bones at Yale | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...Actor's Nightmare is an In joke. The simple non-hero is named George Spelvin (Jeff Brooks), a theatrical pseudonym for an actor playing a secondary role in a play. Spelvin has unaccountably wandered into stage company that he has never kept. The time is the present, but the other actors arbitrarily inform him that he is Edwin Booth's understudy in Hamlet and must go on tonight since "Eddie" has been injured in a car crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Avaunt, God | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...Jeff Powell couldn't, and Harvard took over. Seven plays later, Jim Acheson plunged off right tackle for the touchdown to clinch a 23-14 Crimson victory, and for once, all the mistakes didn't matter...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gridders Dump William and Mary, 23-14 | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

Angels' second-baseman Bobby Grich signed a four-year contract over the weekend, thus removing his name from this week's re-entry draft. Reggie Jackson, Ron Guidry, Jerry Remy, Joe Rudi, Bill Campbell. Frank Tanana, Jeff Burroughs and others are still eligible for free-agency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...twice, and Watson came in fourth in the 3-meter outdoor Nationals last summer. Watson--an Ashland. Kentucky native--is, according to one member of the team, "one of the top three or four divers in the country right now." Joining the freshmen phenoms will be returning star junior JEFF MULE--last year's Eastern champ--and sophomore KARL ILLIG, who dramatically improved over the summer and qualified for the National Age Group Championships. Already tops in the Ivy League, the Crimson squad is now surpassed in talent only by six or seven scholarship schools like Miami and Indiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer, Tennis Teams Dining In Style | 11/7/1981 | See Source »

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