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...history department, a larger percentage of concentrators write theses, says Head Tutor Philip A. Kuhn '54. This year, the department has 105 honors candidates and 86 non-honors seniors...
Although the history tutorial office had a line extending outside its door last Friday, as students frantically sought advisers, Kuhn says all but four of the would-be honors candidates now have supervisors, and the rest are "negotiating...
Reporters have not as a rule approached other sports executives in pursuit of profundities. Former Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, for example, was seldom sounded for his views on Western civilization. What sets Giamatti apart from everyone else who has held a comparable position of authority in U.S. sports is his background. He once made his living as a professor of English and comparative literature, with a particular interest in the Italian Renaissance. Odder still, he was at age 40 the youngest person in 200 years to be installed as the president of Yale University, in 1978. (Around the time...
Ueberroth, 50, succeeded Bowie Kuhn and became baseball's sixth commissioner on Oct. 1, 1984. He came to baseball after organizing the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles...
...focuses instead on three people who have paid a huge emotional price for success, only to realize that glory does not bring contentment: an American (Philip Casnoff) who has reached ! the world chess finals; his Soviet counterpart (David Carroll); and the American's adviser and erstwhile bedmate (Judy Kuhn), who falls in love with the Soviet. Theirs is not a charming Ninotchka-style romance: the CIA and the KGB hover on the periphery, exploiting the players and the game. Offsetting the gloom are a clear narrative drive, Nunn's trademark cinematic staging, three superb leading performances by actors willing...