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...Coach Peckham is a good motivator," Widerman added. "He's trying to push them to that high level. If they can stay healthy and continue to progress at the same rate, they will continue to do well...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: The Olympics Meet the MAC | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...change may be on the horizon, though. That's because the Crimson has a new head wrestling coach, James Peckham, a 1956 U.S. Olympic wrestling team member and the U.S. Olympic wrestling team coach since 1972. Harvard's chances for Ivy glory can't help but increase...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: The Olympics Meet the MAC | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...hard for me to predict [how the team will do this year] because I'm new in the ballpark and haven't gone through the league before," Peckham said. "I suspect four of the six Ivies--Brown, Cornell, Princeton and Columbia--to be strong this season...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: The Olympics Meet the MAC | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

EDITOR'S CHOICE FICTION O-ZONE, Paul Theroux -- PECKHAM'S MARBLES, Peter De Vries -- PERFUME, Patrick Suskind -- THE PRINCE OF TIDES, Pat Conroy -- A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS, Peter Taylor -- A TASTE FOR DEATH, P.D. James NONFICTION EISENHOWER: AT WAR 1943-1945, David Eisenhower -- GOING SOLO, Roald Dahl MY FATHER, MY SON, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. and Lieut. Elmo Zumwalt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editor's Choic | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...Earl Peckham is the serious author of The Sorry Scheme of Things Entire and The Ghastly Dinner Party, "an unsparing delineation of the worm-eaten psyche of modern man as exemplified in the subcutaneous motivations propelling the social lives of urban people whose surfaces are rotten enough." Sorry Scheme sold three copies. Earl's girlfriend Poppy McCloud writes best-selling romances like Break Slowly, Dawn and commands $2 million advances. What do these vastly different writers have in common, besides a publisher named Dogwinkle? Well, there is sex, which the pun-loving Peter De Vries, 76, might call the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 13, 1986 | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

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