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...time member of the U.S. Olympic squad (in 1976 and 1980). Graves' departure has received mixed reactions from team members. The Crimson oars women voiced their best wishes for their mentor's success but added that the team will miss Graves' rowing expertise...

Author: By Jocelyn B. Lamm, | Title: Women's Crew Coach Graves Resigns | 3/10/1983 | See Source »

...outcast, what he called "the fugitive kind"-the odd, the lonely, the emotionally violated. The sense of loss and vulnerability that one finds in his characters was imprinted on the playwright at an early age. Williams was born in his Episcopalian clergyman grandfather's rectory in Columbus, Miss. His forebears included a genealogical treeful of romantics, adventurers and notables: Poet Sidney Lanier (1842-81), some Tennessee Indian fighters, an early U.S. Senator, and, way back, a brother of St. Francis Xavier's. When Tennessee was seven, the sunlit backyards of his boyhood were exchanged for rows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Laureate of the Outcast | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...mother, whom Tennessee always called "Miss Edwina," nourished the myth with illusory memories of a grand and gracious heritage. His father was a gruff and aggressive traveling shoe salesman, who, on rare home stays, taunted his son as a sissy and called him "Miss Nancy." His older sister Rose, an imaginative muse to Williams, tragically retreated into schizophrenia until a prefrontal lobotomy in 1937 immured her in a perpetual mental twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Laureate of the Outcast | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...Turner closed out the scoring in the final minute, beating Fink on a breakaway. THE NOTEBOOK. Greg Olson's recently healed ankle bothered him again on the very first shift, he may miss tonight's game. RPI 0 1 0-1 Harvard...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Halfway There: Icemen Shut Down RPI, 5-1 | 3/5/1983 | See Source »

Durbin's goal was the relocation of the sweetspot, the area on the racket head that gives the player maximum hitting control. "Players using conventional rackets often miss the sweetspot located near the base of the racket, causing tennis elbow," he explained...

Author: By Jon Askin, | Title: Princeton Prof Invents 'Perfect' Racket | 3/3/1983 | See Source »

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