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...classifications, Crimson entrants more often than not got knocked off by the eventual champion. Old Dominion's Bill Clark, who copped the "A" singles title yesterday afternoon, wasted Pompan in the quarter-finals, 6-3, 6-0. Sands, the Crimson's number one, got zapped by Penn's Murray Robinson, 6-3, 6-2, also in the quarters...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Crimson Netmen Trail Only Princeton, Finish 2nd in Eastern Championships | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...York-based consulting firm: "I would expect that the incipient recovery will stall within the next eight weeks." The economists generally predicted that U.S. business will be sluggish next year. The board's median forecast for 1981 anticipates growth of 2.7%, although individual predictions ranged widely. Republican Murray Weidenbaum, director of the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis, forecast a relatively brisk 4% expansion, but independent Economic Consultant Robert Nathan projected an all-but-invisible expansion of only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Slow Rebound from Recession | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

After a start seven years ago on Laugh-In, a regular stint on The Sonny and Cher Show, both as comic-actor Murray Langston, and 130 bagged appearances on The Gong Show, the Unknown Comic is on the verge of becoming known. The bag-headed comedian has been offered the lead role, without the bag, in a television pilot called Scared Stiff, about a bumbling private detective. He is also close to doing a syndicated half-hour variety show that would star the Unknown Comic, with...

Author: By Bill Braunstein, | Title: THE UNKNOWN COMIC | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

Langston, 34, came to the United States 15 years ago from Canada and joined the service. The only thing close to stage experience was a radio show he had while in the Navy, "Musical Murray's Murray-Go-Round of Music." After a four-year hitch in the Navy aboard an aircraft carrier that stayed in Europe, Langston moved to Los Angeles where he eventually landed a job as a computer operator. After four years of punching cards, he was ready to expand his horizons...

Author: By Bill Braunstein, | Title: THE UNKNOWN COMIC | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...would expect: he laughs them off. Comedy is his bag and the bag is his comedy and as his alter ego might put it, sack-cess is just around the corner. "Let's face it," he says, "right now people are coming to see the Unknown Comic and not Murray Langston, but that should change soon." Then, having given his prediction, Murray Langston walks up a flight of stairs, across the long hotel lobby and seems to disappear in the crowd...

Author: By Bill Braunstein, | Title: THE UNKNOWN COMIC | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

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