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...trustees instead selected David C. Knapp, provost of Cornell University. Knapp will succeed Robert C. Wook, who resigned the UMass presidency in December partially because of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's budgetary program...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Vorenberg Not Chosen UMass President | 5/17/1978 | See Source »

Among the other candidates for the past are Charles Foster, dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and David Knapp, provost of Cornell University...

Author: By Maxwell Gould, | Title: Vorenberg May Be UMass President | 5/9/1978 | See Source »

Most of the supporting roles are competent, but lack individual character. Gaughan and Richard Blumenfeld as Jasperino both and a little spice to their scenes; but the real surprise comes from Peter Knapp as Alsemero, the nobleman Beatrice really loves. Knapp is a sleeper, underacting so much that he is almost unnoticeable for most of the play. But when he learns of his beloved's infidelity, he seems to come out of nowhere and shake the beams in the Leverett theater's ceiling with his bellow, "You are a whore...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Blood Without Guts | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

Truck Driver Calvin Knapp ran a write-in, word-of-mouth campaign last November for the unpaid job of constable of Michigan's Novi township. He won, but the satisfaction of victory was tempered by a $300 fine for having failed to form the proper committees and to file the right reports. Dave Darsky, who ran a losing race for the Berkley school board, contends that his sole campaign expense was maybe "a little extra dog food" for his poodle Abner, who wore a sandwich board proclaiming VOTE FOR DARSKY. HE'LL WORK LIKE A DOG FOR YOUR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: When the Law Is Blind | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...Stavros, ignore the warnings offered by the ancient lieutenant and press on--determined to catch his man. And, amazing in an age where the South Koreans owned Congress and the Nixon gang made money off Watergate, there could be no fix. When it came to Theo Kojak, the Knapp Commission was out-to-lunch. He just couldn't be bought: the nation's last honest cop. Maybe the nation's last honest man. And what added to his luster was his incredible omnipotence; Kojak simply never made a mistake. He might be wrong for 59 minutes but in the last...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: The Man With the Lollipops | 5/19/1977 | See Source »

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