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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superficial bullet wound, managed to join the pool of reporters that returned to the Jonestown site with Guyanese authorities. He was filing from his hotel room in Georgetown when Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee recalled him to Washington. There Krause holed up in a suite at the Madison Hotel and began working. "It was sort of like Georgetown," Krause recalled. "I was being held captive." At first dictating his recollections and later doing his own typing, Krause assembled his account in five days, while Post Editors Laurence Stern and Richard Harwood filled in the background. Their book went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quickie Phenomenon | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Wagner basketball was born in a spacious manger by the name of Madison Square Garden on the night of November 24, 1978 and the midwife at courtside was a personable young coach by the name of P.J. Carlesimo. On that night the tiny school in Staten Island defeated nationally ranked Alabama in the Joe Lapchick Memorial Tournament by a score...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Wagner Downs Cagers, 82-73 | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

...time now for Kaplan to leave his Boston center (the second largest branch behind his Madison Avenue office in Manhattan),to go back to New York on the last shuttle. He kisses his daughters--who run the Boston center--goodbye...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...Kaplan success story is a combination of Horatio Alger hype and pure chutzpah. He grew up in Brooklyn, son of a plumbing contractor and a housewife. At James Madison High School, he became enamored to teaching, and recalls now that he used to bribe his stickball buddies to listen to him practice teaching. But while he was enrolled at City College of New York, the tables began to turn...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Coach Bill McCurdy summed it all up to manager John Currier after the men's cross country team finished second to last at the NCAA championships held yesterday in Madison, Wis.: "Look at it this way, John. We're 28th in the nation...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Herd Concludes Very Successful Season By Taking 28th Spot at NCAA Championship | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

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