Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lucky enough to be assigned to a big-city office, his hours are apt to be as regular as a stockbroker's. But assignment to a small city can mean excessive travel, irregular hours and unplanned schedule changes. The ideal assignment is in a middle-sized city like Madison, Wis., or Boulder, Colo., where as agents say, "You can pretty much be your own boss...
...something dishonest in Herb Gardner's original Broadway comedy. The fact is that Murray, however appealing, is disgusted with the very world that creates the play: his snide, wise-guy humor and his rah-rah sense of fun sit smugly in the hackneyed phrases and conditioned attitudes of the Madison Avenue mentality he scorns. This is hardly getting down to the roots of self-honesty. When a sentimental and moralizing tone begins to rear its nasty little head near the end, the message, which is fairly muddled anyway, becomes downright offensive...
...March 1923 - exactly 50 years ago. Boxer Gene Tunney had just won the light-heavyweight title at Madison Square Garden, while in California, Prohibitionists were battling to close the Mexican border to thirsty tourists. In Europe preparations were under way for Italy's first skyscraper. It was with these and other stories that TIME The Weekly Newsmagazine first appeared...
...trouble came in two parts. The first was an offer by the owners to sub mit salary disputes to binding arbitration. Players Association Executive Director Marvin Miller dismissed that as "all propaganda, Madison Avenue stuff. You read the fine print and you find that the proposal is worthless." Among other things, he objected to the stipulation that a player cannot seek arbitration two years in a row. Explained Miller: "If the player wins arbitration one year, the next they could take it out of his hide...
When coaches from Yale, Stanford and the University of Virginia came to our high school to woo our basketball players, Kenny was dazzling, bringing the James Madison hoopsters into the limelight. Eliot advised Kenny to guard against the steak dinners at the Yale Club and contact Harvard. (Harvard has a rule forbidding coaches from courting perspective Crimson cagers.) Following his brother's suggestion, Wolfe applied to Harvard and was admitted...