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...Epps's hands are full again, this time with a potentially less explosive conflict. William F. Hartnett '78, a recently defeated candidate for the presidency of the Harvard Republican Club, filed a letter of complaint with Epps last week protesting what he calls the "peculiar campaign practices" in the club's recent elections...
From that first taste of fame I was hooked, I had to have "ink." On into high school the peculiar malady stuck with me. The morning after every game I would pick up the paper and scan the sports pages for the recap of our game--and for my name. After the season I would re-enact each game from the written record provided by our friendly sportswriter...
...peculiar symbiotic relationship exists between sports teams and the press. Of course, there would be no sportswriters if there were no sports to cover, and newspapers depend on the sports reader for steady circulation. The teams strive for as much publicity as possible, hoping to increase prestige as well as the take at the gate. And, one has to admit, there is something gratifying about seeing one's name in print...
...recently defeated candidate for the presidency of the Harvard Republicar Club filed a letter of complaint yesterday with Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, protesting what he terms the "peculiar campaign practices" in the club's February elections...
...very tawdry and petty and spiteful, and political London last week was talking of little else. For years Labor Party insiders have clucked and gossiped about the peculiar relationship between former Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Lady Falkender, 44, his longtime and often evil-tempered private political secretary, who was just plain Marcia Williams before Wilson recommended her for a life peerage in 1974. Now Joe Haines, who served as Wilson's press secretary from 1969 until the Prime Minister's retirement from No. 10 Downing Street last April, has drafted a poison-pen portrait of Lady Falkender...