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...Quakers, who finished third in the Ivies, placed Joseph Swain, Gil Mateer and Thomas Peck on the star-studded squad. Joining the Harvard and Penn players are Arif Sarfraz and David Bottger for Princeton, Scott McCallister and Rick Woolworth from Dartmouth and Yale's Seth Walworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL-IVY SQUASH | 3/28/1974 | See Source »

According to an old saw, if a chimpanzee is allowed to punch the keys of a typewriter at random for a long enough time, it will eventually peck out Hamlet. Lana, a playful three-year-old female chimpanzee at Emory University's Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, will never accomplish that feat, but she is already one up on the hypothetical chimp. Under the tutelage of the center's scientists, Lana is rapidly learning how to read and write in a brand-new language called Yerkish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lessons for Lana | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

Dick Cashin picked up Harvard's sixth win at number three, topping Penn's Tom Peck...

Author: By Richard A. Samp, | Title: Racquetmen Down Quakers, 6-3, Share Ivy Lead | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

MONDAY: To Kill A Mockingbird. 1962. Gregory Peck at his most noble in a story of racial prejudice, honor, and childhood in a little Alabama town. CH.4...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

Chronologically, the images stretch from the first page of the first story in the first issue-a Saturday night in Fort Peck, Mont., in 1936, where WPA workers are whooping it up at a local saloon -to a recent moment when Dick Cavett made fun of TV talk shows by interviewing Louis, his own poodle. The book embraces one Depression, five wars, five Presidents, and that picture of Rita Hayworth in a black-bodiced, white satin nightgown. Fiorello La Guardia appears, blowing smoke rings with bemused insouciance. So does Nikita Khrushchev, shaking his fist in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pictures from an Institution | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

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