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Accolades continue to pour in for the junior phenom, who has completed 93 of 178 passes for 1387 yards and two touchdowns, and is just a game or two away from shattering several Harvard passing records...
...curb its winos or risk losing the liquor license forever. When pro football banned those unseemly scenes in 1973, a Miami tackle named Manny Fernandez was particularly indignant. He whined, "I don't drink champagne because it's too tough on my stomach, but I'd like to pour it on somebody," prompting Red Smith to mutter, "For barbarians like that, Dr Pepper's too good...
...Harvard days, I only drank coffee after Sunday brunch at my grandparents' house. My mother would pour me half a cup of coffee, half a cup of cream, and dump in five tablespoons of sugar...
...Morris Albert's Feelings isn't really Morris Albert's Feelings at all. No, the treacly pop song that sold more than a million records in 1975 is really a rewrite of Pour Toi, a hitherto obscure French cafe tune composed nearly 20 years earlier by one Louis Gaste. That, at least, is what a nonmusical federal-court jury in Manhattan decided last July, awarding Gaste a settlement of at least half a million dollars. Gaste pronounced himself vindicated. Albert's feelings were unknown...
...coal heap," in the words of his biographer, and suffered cruelly in the small, tough town where he was born. But Wright gave as good as he got. One poem about the rumored demise of a whorehouse in Wheeling depicts a throng of women swinging their purses as they pour into the river at dusk. What the heck is going on? the poet innocently wonders...