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Then Lyman Bullard stole the ball from a Big Green fullback near the corner and kicked a low hard cross off the endline to Acorn in front of the goal. Acorn beat the Dartmouth goalie to knot the score...
However, other crucial questions remain unanswered. Did William Harris wear underclothes during his court appearance? What knot does Mr. Hearst favor for his necktie...
Lord Baden-Powell might be appalled, but the square knot of scouting is slipping fast. Reacting to longstanding charges of irrelevance and to dwindling membership rolls (down 515,457 in the past year), the Boy Scouts of America have been seeking a mod image for the electronic age. Some of their innovations were on display over the weekend at Campex-West, a Camporee for 2,425 Scouts at San Francisco's Presidio...
...match to play. Harvard's Chip Baird playing number five, fought off a 5-6 deficit in the third set by breaking his opponent's serve to tie the score at six apiece and then demolished Penn's Bob Lavett 5-1 in a best-of-nine tiebreaker to knot the match score for the Crimson "Chip really came through in the clutch." Harvard coach Jack Barnaby said after the match...
...also familiar. Sometimes they are anonymous figures, writhing and grappling. The rest are portraits of himself and his friends: George Dyer, Isabel Rawsthorne, the artist Lucian Freud. "Who," Bacon once half-jokingly asked, "can I tear to pieces if not my friends?" Triptych, May-June 1973, with its deliquescent knot of white flesh hunched on a toilet, spewing into a basin and casting a melodramatic bat's shadow on the floor, is an elegy for George Dyer, who committed suicide in a Paris hotel room...