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...enhance a headline service. There sit Barbara and Harry Reasoner, with backs half-turned to the camera, looking at their interview subject on what seems to be another television screen on the wall; the effect on the viewer is something like Aldous Huxley's definition of infinity: A Quaker Oats box with a picture on it of a Quaker holding a Quaker Oats box on which is a picture of, etc. A reporter bundled up against the cold reports on Congress against a backdrop of the U.S. Capitol, then is cross-questioned by Reasoner and Walters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Network News: Minstrels and Anchormen | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...case every time Harvard scored on Saturday, the opening drive was initiated inside the Penn 25-yard line and made possible by a Quaker turnover (which, incidentally, is on today's breakfast menu...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Pennsylvania Turnovers Recharge Crimson, 20-8 | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Harvard played Penn evenly all the way, collecting ten saves to the Quakers' 11 and outshooting them 18-13. But the offense could not click in front. A Quaker fullback denied the Crimson an early lead, kicking out a Lyman Bullard head in the opening minutes...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Harvard Booters Lose a Close One To the Quakers | 11/6/1976 | See Source »

PENN at PRINCETON--Now this one is genuinely tough. A Tiger victory would mean a 3-2 record heading into Yale and Dartmouth the next two weekends, which wouldn't sit too badly with the alumni, while a Quaker triumph would mean a chance to finish ahead of Princeton in the final standings. Heads say Princeton, tails Penn. It's spinning, it's still spinning, it's, it's heads (but just barely). Princeton 19, Penn...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 10/30/1976 | See Source »

...Kahlil Gibran-brings a blackmailer into Joan's life. Rather than face exposure of her multiple lives, Joan plans a fake accidental death by drowning. Thereafter, she hopes to resurface in a new life -one that will be "neat and simple, understated, even a little severe, like a Quaker church or a basic black dress with a single strand of pearls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Motley with Method | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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