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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flunking Out: Senate Candidates Muff a Quiz | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...club yesterday decided to reaffirm the 1978 award, rejecting the suggestion of Emily De Muff '68 to take away the award because Field sold the paper to Murdoch...

Author: By Maria L. Crisera, | Title: Controversy Over Award Erupts In Chicago's Harvard Club | 4/12/1984 | See Source »

Reagan's extreme reliance on his staff leaves him badly exposed when they muff their jobs. Last fall Administration officials quietly confirmed that then Middle East Envoy Robert McFarlane favored stepped-up U.S. military action in Lebanon. Clark, overreacting to the leak, drafted an Executive Order mandating polygraph exams to track down the source. The order could have subjected most of Reagan's top associates to lie-detector tests. At least one Cabinet resignation was threatened. "It was a black day around here," says a White House aide. Administration "pragmatists" intervened to get the foolish scheme canceled. Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A View Without Hills or Valleys | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...songwriter for sheer cleverness: in Bunthorne's confession that he is an "aesthetic sham," to name just one memorable example, he sings. "This air severe/is but a mere/veneer.... This costume chaste/is but good taste/misplaced." And Lady's Jane's second-act solo, sung by the exemplary Ethelwyn (Muff) Worden, to this day speaks to the audiences of Doctors Tarnower and Pritikin...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Patience, Impatients | 4/23/1981 | See Source »

Hello tradition. Little brother Chris Bando, having emerged as a switch-hitting catcher, came up in the bottom of the inning, having done nothing of significance save muff a few pop fouls. He promptly belted one off the same light tower, and this time it was over...

Author: By Mike Kennedy, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: College World Series: Of Devils and Phantoms | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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