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...Harvard as a team, this was a few bad breaks short of a night mare. The icemen--now 13-2-2 overall, 11-2-1 in the ECAC--showed more rapid eye movement than rapid skate movement. The Bruins--now 7-12 overall, 4-10 ECAC--acted as Keystone Kop Dream Police...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Snooze Past Brown, 2-1 | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...second exotic subject is more mysterious, almost surreal. It is a zebra mare, which had been brought from the Cape of Good Hope and given to Queen Charlotte in 1762. This "painted African, ass," the first seen in England, was installed in the royal menagerie at Buckingham Gate. When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it. It is as though one had taken a wrong turn in the Forest of Arden and encountered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art:George Stubbs: A Vision of Four-Legged Order | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...winter there were only 13 Fifty-Niners left on the Susitna, and what a winter they had. On Christmas Eve, Steve Pankiewicz's mare Ruby, a Percheron draft horse, fell 20 ft. into a well. All night long the men worked to dig the horse out of the frozen gravel, and by 4 a.m. they were finished. They earned Shorty's grudging admiration. "Those people did something nobody ever did before in this country," he allowed. "They got a horse in a well and got it out alive." Later that winter Bertha Donaldson fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alaska: Homesteading | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...Melrose, Mass. 88 Steve Abbott TE Orono, Maine 89 Pete Miclach DE Scotch Plains, N.J. 90 John Lowenstein SE Arlington, Mass. 91 Bill Ross DE New Smyrna, Fla. 92 Mike Bunar MG Hanson, Mass. 93 Joe Walsh DT Wycoff, N.J. 94 Joe Lee TE Fort Wayne, Ind. 94 Mare Miller DT Niles, Mich. 95 Barry Ford DT Peekskill, N.Y. 96 Brent Clapacs DE Euclid, Ohio 97 Brian Sullivan DE Walpole, Mass. 98 Clifton Tidwell DE Evanston, Ill. 99 Stan Yukevich DE Richmond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roster | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...tests a horse's memory and manners, went to West Germany, followed by Switzerland and Sweden. Touch of Class led a disciplined U.S. squad to its first ever gold in team show jumping. Joe Fargis, who shares a Virginia farm with Homfeld, was aboard. He compared the little mare to Runner Zola Budd: "She's quite small too, but she runs very fast for her size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A SPRAY OF OTHER EVENTS | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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