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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joke around in practice: I try to be fairly serious," he said, because you have to be serious in a match...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Don Pompan: The Harvard Tennis Team's Lively Ace | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

...Some players joke around in practice, and then in a match all of a student it's four all in the third set, and their muscles aren't used to it. You have to get acclimated to that kind of situation, and the best way is to practice...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Don Pompan: The Harvard Tennis Team's Lively Ace | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

Larsen cited Bok's gibe that women's groups at the Law School had demanded 51 per cent of the school's recruiting funds. Bok termed this "outrageous" and made a joke...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Bok Writes Open Letter About Gifts, Draws Fire for Kirkland House Speech | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

...like you were being told an off-color joke in front of your mother," David J. Schraa, assistant senior tutor in Kirkland House, said Saturday. "Though there were a lot of absurdities in the '60s, there was something about his leering tone that was distasteful," he added...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Bok Writes Open Letter About Gifts, Draws Fire for Kirkland House Speech | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

...subscribers would hear. On the other hand, the Los Angeles Times spoke loud and clear, but it was far from the center of things, and its deafening bias against any news or newsmaker that might threaten the interests of the Chandlers or their land-holding friends had become a joke to outsiders. Humorist S.J. Perelman recalled stopping at Albuquerque during one train trip: "I asked the porter to get me a newspaper and unfortunately the poor man, hard of hearing, brought me the Los Angeles Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Names That Make the News | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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