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Yale's Marty Schwartz decisioned 158-pound Jim Corcoran, while Jim McEwan cradled a disbelieving Bruce Johnson at 167 for three more Eli points...

Author: By Francis T. Crimmins jr., | Title: Grapplers Fall to Yale, 26-11; End Season in Tie for Third | 2/18/1975 | See Source »

...denial was not convincing, but it raises the question of what an eccentric is in modern America-and how many of them there are. What primarily distinguishes an eccentric, says Harvard Sociologist Peter McEwan, is that he is "extraordinarily secure. Other people are either wrong or going about life ineffectually. He thinks that he has the answer." That definition might equally fit Atheist O'Hair ("I will separate church and state, by God"), Hugh Hefner, Admiral Hyman Rickover-or Sirhan Sirhan. In fact, genuine eccentricity generally stops far short of pathological conduct. According to McEwan, the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SAD STATE OF ECCENTRICITY | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Chatterton, at 167, will probably face Yale's star, Tom McEwan, who is 8-0-1 on the season. Low and Moss will also face challenges against Yale's Ken Haltenoff and Don Joseph, respectively...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: Pickett's Matmen In Last Charge | 3/2/1968 | See Source »

...famed skill at depicting tragicomic grotesque nobodies. Death's nobody is Edgar, an aging Swedish army captain quartered on an island. Symbolically, it is an out post of hell, an arid devil's island of an awful marriage that has lasted almost 25 years. Wife Alice (Geraldine McEwan) is a viper-vampire, bleeding her husband of self-respect. She refuses to let him forget that he never rose to the rank of major, that his only accomplishment is an obsolete manual on small arms. Edgar bullies Alice right back, and stamps his army boot on her vanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Best of Breed | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...chances of beating Yale are pretty good. The Bulldogs are 1-4 in the League and 1-8 overall. In their line-up they do have some fine wrestlers--particularly undefeated Tom McEwan at the 167-slot, and Don Joseph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Meet Yale, and Hope For Tiger Loss | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

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