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...though it, too, will never die and fade into the memories of a one-time quarterback who went to training camp with the St. Louis Cardinals and was never heard from again, Crone is gone. You missed him. You'll never watch and marvel at the "Zone" or his matchless talents. What are you going to do about Endzone Crone...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Where Have All the Heroes Gone? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

Collier's language is economical and stinging and his standards of malevolence are consistently high. Three or four of these 47 stories might well have been omitted from the collection, but the rest are matchless. The sly and funny short novel, His Monkey Wife, is also included, a model of prose technique and misogyny. A bottle of your very best girl, waiter, for the editor who had the happy inspiration to collect the work of this master. "JohnSkow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Matchless Malice | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

Jeffrey Wayne Davies as Bunthorne the mock aesthete who prides himself on the flock of women who adore him creates a dark but wispy Edgar Allan Poe type a creature of irreproachable vanity and matchless hypocrisy. His mastery of the stage the music the orchestra and the audience during the famous "Bunthorne's Song." ("What an extraordinarily deep young man....") has to be seen to be believed He so far outshines anyone who has hit the boards in G&S in recent years including himself in other roles that any attempt to describe him would collapse into superlatives...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Patience | 12/9/1972 | See Source »

...crowd would have been even larger, cynics observed, if three of the 1971 prizewinners were not dead. Flannery O'Connor, who won in the most coveted fiction category for the complete collection of her matchless stories (TIME, Nov. 29), died in 1964. The fiction judges had to bypass an N.B.A. rule that bars books by authors more than two years departed to give her the award. The history award, a separate category for the first time this year, went to Allan Nevins who died in 1971, after finishing the last two volumes in his massively readable eight-volume history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pangs and Prizes | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

because: you are outstanding examples of leaders who can successfully meet the matchless academic and athletic challenges presented by the University because: upon graduation you will stand out in the business community as a "preferred graduate," the man who was able to take advantage of Maryland's high-ranking educational standards because: you can bring exciting basketball back to the Baltimore-Washington area, play one of the toughest schedules in the nation under coaches with winning records, have the added bonus of playing before your "home folks" in the 14,000 seat Cole Field House, and help bring the NCAA...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: C. G. Driesell Basically Unlike Mortal Men | 1/5/1972 | See Source »

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