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Harrison substituted freely during the game in an effort to get some life back into the team. The Crimson managed to edge Dartmouth, 72-68, but was not playing up to par...
...that five family members-who do not constitute the entire family-control about 1.5 million shares. The price of these shares alone increased by $83 million in 1972, to $192 million. The company is headed by three husbands of granddaughters of Founder W.E. Upjohn. They are Chairman Ray T. Par-fet Jr., 50; President Robert M. Boude-man, 55; and Executive Committee Chairman Preston S. Parish, 53. Under them the company last year achieved research breakthroughs on prostaglandins, which are hormone-like substances that may be used to terminate pregnancies. That news prompted excited investors to bid up the stock...
Harvard's shooting was below par as the cagers only hit 38 per cent of their attempts. The Bruins connected on 45 per cent of their shots...
Prior to John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956), the image of the Eng lish that Americans absorbed from plays and films was a one-dimensional but slyly endearing caricature. The screen, in particular, was peopled with dotty aristocrats, blithering Colonel Blimps, rural eccentrics, peculiar par sons and an assortment of idiots. One knew, however, that they were Britons of the right sort; they would muddle through to the next whisky and soda...
...LITERARY WORLD that loves to pin labels on its writers, Bernard Malamud has often been called the America-Jewish writer par excellence, a "celebrator of the Jew in America," a man who "universalizes" Jews and the Jewish way of life. Malamud, although conceding these traits in much of his work, does not see the Sixties as some bygone era of American-Jewish writing, nor does he regard that supposedly ethnic Spirit as now dead. For Malamud, "there is no such thing as a particularly Jewish sensibility in literature," and he dislikes the chronological and ethnic limitations critics try to apply...