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Freshman Scott Feldman provided Harvard with a pleasant surprise in the foil, topping Columbia's Bob Berger, who had placed third in the NCAA's last year. Coach Edo Marion said yesterday that it was great to see that Feldman was such a competitor. "He fought like a lion." Marion said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Lose Pair of Matches in N.Y. Visit; Fall to Powerful Columbia, CCNY Fencers | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...lugubrious rummaging through the Romanov attic, this is a Love Story with historical footnotes. Extracted from Robert K. Massie's bestseller, it seems to have started as an attempt to make what the boys back at the studio call "an intelligent epic." For Scenarist James Goldman (The Lion in Winter) and Director Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton), that apparently means endless vistas of gilded scenery, plus dreary dialogues about the future of Russia and the Czar's responsibility to his family and his increasingly obstreperous subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Russian Dressing | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

When eleven-year-old Elizabeth Lee reached into a lion cage at an Anchorage amusement park, a 300-lb. lioness named Cleo seized her arm in its teeth. Alaska State Trooper Frank Johnson raced to the rescue, pulled out his pistol and shot the lion in the head. As the lion fell dead, both Johnson and the girl went sprawling; Johnson's gun accidentally went off again, and the girl was wounded in the thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Cop and the Lion | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

When Defensive Tackle Alex Karras was dropped by the Detroit Lions football team this fall at the age of 36, he did what any other sports figure would do in the circumstances. He decided to capitalize further on the fame he won on the field. Among other things, he got a job with the Detroit Free Press as a sports columnist. But when he showed up at the first game, the Lions management barred him from the press box. "He's done nothing but say derogatory things about the team," said Lion Public Relations Director Lyall Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lion at Large | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

Amos & Boris by William Steig. Unpaged. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.50. A seagoing rodent and a whale sign a long-term mutual-assistance pact in a variation on the old lion-and-the-mouse caper. In an off year, the year's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caboose Thoughts and Celebrities | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

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