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...clutch, with foul trouble closing in on his squad, Coach Frank McLaughlin looked to his bench and came up with Standley, not an offensive dynamo but a good demonstration of the legend on the back of this season's practice jerseys: "DEFENSE WINS" Harvard...
BRIGHTEST INSTANT REPLAY. Of all the solitary catches and hits, baskets and goals, the singular sensation of the sporting year was Boston College's 5-ft. 9 3/4-in. Doug Flutie confirming his legend with two seconds and half a field to go. That one pass in a 47-45 fireworks display at Miami is a trophy for Flutie as tangible as a Heisman...
Connoisseurs of tales of the raj will recognize in Jewel most of the pukka props that have become the stuff of imperial legend: rusty colonels and their horsy daughters, schoolmarmy missionaries and pip-pipping young officers. Awful duffers are forever bashing off for a gin-and-tonic at the club, while social gaffers natter on about their rotten luck. India seems, on the surface at least, to be the ultimate British public school, an extended expatriate cocktail party...
...game, one of those considerate treasures who chose the time grandly. "I chose it pragmatically," he says, laughing lightly. "I knew I'd be exploiting this notoriety for 20 years. Keep in mind that my salary was $30,000 in 1963." In other words, exchanging some of his legend for its full cash value up front might have made economic sense. "If it had been $300,000, chances are I would have played until 1969." But bleeding the fund by such small increments would have been shortsighted...
...devoted himself to diverting children as well as adults. His latest work, CDC? (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95), tells jokes by using what seem to be isolated letters and digits. At first glance the pages hold pure nonsense: two small boys watch a television set; below them is the legend "R T-M S B-N B-10." But when the letters and number are pronounced, young readers can crack the code: "Our team is bein' beaten." A Martian has descended from a spaceship. The line explains, "N-M-E L-E-N." A doctor holds aloft a test tube...