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...world's finer pleasures (besides Grey Poupon mustard), Chicago Frank's also presents a wide lineup of other meals. Besides hot dogs, Lamberti and Gianchristiano also serve up hamburgers, various sausages, roast beef, chili, clam chowder, onion rings, and fried dough. These, unfortunately, were not up to par--it's obvious that Chicago Frank's is meant to do one thing, cook hot dogs, and nothing else...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Thank God for Hot Dogs | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...more win will put Joe Montana nearly on a par with Terry Bradshaw as the definitive Super Bowl championship quarterbacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 49ers Aim For Super Results | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

...inverse correlation between athletic talent and academic ability. President Bok's recent survey demonstrated that students involved in time-consuming activities such as athletics tend to do better academically than their classmates who are less involved. In addition, statistics show that board scores of entering athletes are on a par with those of their classmates and that, once at Harvard, athletes are consistently within one standard deviation of the college-wide mean for academics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Respect Talents | 1/6/1989 | See Source »

...mother, a low-handicap amateur of Finnish descent, gave him two of Nicklaus' books. The boy read them and decided to give golf a try. It soon became clear that the late starter was a prodigy. Greg's father Merv recalls that he made "phenomenal progress," shooting par within 18 months of first picking up a golf club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golfer GREG NORMAN: Just Shy of the Top | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...other Crimson linkmen also showed a marked improvement. Murphy finished seven strokes over par with a 77, Ross Cockrell shot an 83 and Dennis Crowley finished with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Finish 19th In Tourney | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

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