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Things got really ugly every time the team from Norton took the field. Starting pitcher Ellen Brigham issued 10 walks and threw three very costly wild pitches. The Wheaton receiver had three passed balls, and the other seven players aided the Crimson's cause with 10 errors...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Softballers Outplay Wheaton, 19-6; Jakovic and Romero Toss Four-Hitter | 4/21/1982 | See Source »

...generous souls, the season will be one of giving, not receiving. "I have received presents from Santa Claus only a long, long, time ago," says Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish poet who is giving this year's Norton Lectures. "I give presents now--mostly clothing for my family, something fancy or pleasant...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A Few Small Requests | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

Governor William Milliken is seeking to restrain social programs, public sector salaries and the cost to business of unemployment and workers' compensation. For the longer run, Michigan Director of Commerce Norton Berman is pursuing longstanding efforts to diversify the state's economy. Some of his aims involve futuristic technology industries, such as the construction of industrial robots, computer-aided manufacturing and genetic engineering. Berman also hopes to exploit the state's natural resources of wood and water. He claims enthusiastically that Michigan's borders embrace or touch on 20% of the nation's fresh water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Times in the Heartland | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...VANISHING HITCHHIKER by Jan Harold Brunvand Norton; 208 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legends | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...HAVE TO BE an English major to enjoy this book. The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry, collected parodies of poetry by Chaucer to E.B. White, is structured to parallel the famed Norton Anthology. Covering some 700 years of verse, the Brand-X Anthology, edited by William Zaranka, makes for both dignified sport and amusing diversions...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Blank Verse | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

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