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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McDevitt, a senior, sprained an ankle last Saturday and had to miss a good deal of practicing this week. McDevitt may play with the injury against Colgate, however...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Gridders Ailing As Colgate Game Looms | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...opening-night curtain call at Eubie! would certainly have astonished the patrons of Miss Aggie's bawdyhouse in Baltimore, where James Hubert Blake played ragtime piano at the turn of the century. Thin as a blade, remarkably spry and mentally trigger-quick, Eubie confounds his 95 years. At Broadway's Ambassador Theater he mounted the stage, accepted a single rose in tribute, engaged in amiable banter and joined cast and audience alike as they roared out their affection by paraphrasing his biggest hit: "I'm just wild about Eubie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hot Feet, Vamps and Ragmatazz | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...Kind of Love. Looking like an iridescent flapper from the '20s, Ethel Beatty makes Memories of You a heartbreak blues. Just about the entire cast puts sizzling bawdy English into If You've Never Been Vamped by a Brownskin, You've Never Been Vamped at All. Miss Aggie apparently taught Eubie more than he could ever forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hot Feet, Vamps and Ragmatazz | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...depth and density of the music insures against mindlessness; we can be certain the Who will never produce mechanical monotonies like the Stones' "Hot Stuff" and "Miss You." Indeed, "Sister Disco," a Townshend song on the album, lets us know exactly where the who stand...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: One Last Time Around | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

Remember back to your elementary school days when the teacher, invariably assigned a paper on this topic on the first day every year. Well, I miss those days. For me, starting school without writing an essay about my summer exploits is like spring arriving unaccompanied by baseball players holding out for more money...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: From the Inane to the International | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

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