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...open this book if you're looking for some great football action. Instead, Byrne captures all the nervous suspense which takes place in the boardrooms. Byrne paints the eerie picture of how multimillionaires Donald Trump, owner of the New Jersey Generals, and William J. Oldenburg, owner of the Los Angeles Express, committed the young league to field teams in direct competition with the National Football League...
Despite the efforts of Tampa Bay Bandits' owner John Bassett, the league went ahead with the planned move away from spring football despite the added burden of the bankrupt Los Angeles franchise abandoned by Oldenburg. The USFL didn't take long to sink after the league's failed lawsuit attempt against...
...game. The prose excerpts are literary as well as journalistic (Roger Angell, Wilfrid Sheed, John Updike). The illustrations are less familiar: a haunting photo of a sandlot game by Joel Meyerowitz; the charming primitive canvases of Ralph Fasanella; more sophisticated images by such artists as Robert Gwathmey and Claes Oldenburg. At the heart of them all is that enduring diamond, evoked by Crime Novelist Robert Parker in a "bright green park, bathed in light, changeless and symmetrical, contained, exact, and endlessly different...
...MOCA announced with much fanfare that it had agreed to buy, for $11 million spread interest-free over six years, a group of works by Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Rothko and others from Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, the Italian industrialist who was one of its trustees. Though it seems odd that a trustee could make a fortune by selling to his own institution, the deal was perfectly legal in California. "There's good self-dealing and bad self-dealing," says Director Koshalek philosophically. Then last November word leaked out that Count Panza's fellow trustees had discussed selling some...
...defense, the Crimson lost nine starters, including its supurb backfield quartet of Lee Oldenburg, Frank Ciota and All-Ivy selections Cecil Cox and Ken Tarczy. Before the season, Harvard Coach Joe Restic labeled the quartet "an outstanding group, probably the best kids as a group that we've had since I've been here...