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...even contest in the first half, and Harvard may even have had the better of it. leaving the field at halftime with a 10-7 lead. But the afternoon was all downhill for Harvard fans after the dance revue by the B. U. cheerleaders and the Harvard Band prop crew...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach and Martin R. Garay, S | Title: Football Team Falls to Fired-Up Terriers | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

Dave Ritchie and Roy Hope should play front row, with Ted Langford and Peter Gunn-Wilkinson at second row. Hal Clark and Dick Barrett, substituting for injured Gil Bettman, will be the starting wing forwards. with Kip Holmes as hooker and Harder as prop...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Ruggers Scrimmage Tomorrow | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

That girl might be alive today if he had acted with the decision, courage and integrity that a leader is supposed to have, instead of with the opposite on every count. The Senate, officially unshocked by a shocking occurrence, has just knocked one more prop out of the taxpayer's already shaky trust in his government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 15, 1969 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...show alive. He is the supreme impresario, diverting his own eyes and the world's from himself to his creations. If he could put King Kong on stage he would. As director he has no respect for the conventional limits of stage and theater. All the world is a prop to him, and there is always the suspicion that when, as he does in Job, he brings a telephone booth or a Coke machine on stage, it is there more as part of his continuing practical joke on reality than for reasons specific to the play...

Author: By Charles F. Sable, AT THE AGASSIZ, AUGUST 14-16, 19-23 | Title: Job | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...seemed likely that the cast would be greeted anywhere else in America by bags of chicken feathers and cauldrons of tar. In a TV summer season stolen by Armstrong and Aldrin, the show's only acknowledgment of the moon was the crescent-shaped opening in its prime prop-an outhouse. Had the public outgrown that sort of thing? And would TV viewers be turned off by the program's shameless plagiarism of their No. 1 favorite, Laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Corn Is Still Green | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

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