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...playing the game is the thing for most people, there are a driven few who have bigger dreams: creating new games. "Inventors send us everything from a finished model to an idea sketched on the back of a paper bag," says Jack McMahon, head of the development group for Parker Bros., the big Massachusetts game manufacturer responsible for Monopoly, that company's alltime bestseller. A couple of years ago an extraordinary little group managed to get a shoe in Parker Bros.' door: a Cambridge astronomer named Robert Doyle, his wife Holly, an astrophysicist who taught at Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...most popular guest hosts on the Tonight Show, recently broke from the traditional routine of walking on to the stage to deliver his monologue. Instead, he drove out in a small sports car, raced across the stage to say hello to that night's stand-in for Ed McMahon and then drove back across the stage to greet the band...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: A Crazy Kind Of Guy | 12/3/1977 | See Source »

...Mechanics of Running" will be the topic of a lecture by Thomas McMahon, Associate Professor of Applied Mechanics, at 8 p.m. in Science Center D. McMahan is the author of Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry: A Novel...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: A Young and An Old | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...goals and added 32 assists leading the team then, too, with 47 points. He needs only 21 points to move into tenth place in Harvard's all-time career scoring. Another 40-point season would place the junior as Harvard's number seven career scorer, ahead of Jim McMahon, Gene Kinasowich and Billy Corkery...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Hockey Season Begins--At Last! | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

Pete Hamill claims to have once been told how to use words. In the introduction to a 1971 publication of his collected writings, Hamill quotes his mentor Tom McMahon on the subject. "Words are not meant to be slapped on the page with careless abandon," McMahon says. "Words are to be used with care, even love." This is precisely the kind of advice that columnists like Hamill apparently find the hardest to follow...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Sugar and Spice and All That Is Vice: That's What Robbins Heroes Are Made Of the Ringside | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

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