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Pearson may find it slightly more difficult to rack up the yardage against Harvard, however. The Minutemen saw two of their best offensive lineman go down with injuries in last week's 27-14 loss to Holy Cross; right guard Scott LaFond has recovered from a minor ankle injury and intends to play this afternoon, but center Tony Pasquale's sore knee might keep him out of action...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Gridders to Battle Minutemen | 9/25/1982 | See Source »

...number to click down on the switchboard in the pine-paneled back room of Elden Hathaway's house, also known as the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. One of the two operators, comfortably seated a few feet from an abandoned exercise cycle and at right angles to a gun rack, responds to the caller, voice to voice, and makes the requested connection by hand. If nobody picks up the phone, she will report "d.a." (doesn't answer). None of the nervously informing burps and buzzes of a dial system are available to the user of the crank phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: Don't Yank the Crank | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

Teen lit: sex, drugs and divorce on the shopping-mall rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Packaging the Facts of Life | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...Sears Financial Network got off to a good start last week. At a store in suburban Chicago, for example, a steady stream of curious shoppers dropped by the new center, which is nestled between a rack of basketballs and shelves of automotive supplies. Frank Fortini, 21, was toting a dry-cleaning bag in one hand as he picked up some Coldwell, Banker real estate brochures with the other. Said he: "I already have Allstate insurance. Now my fiancée and I are looking for a house." Sears seems determined to live up to its old slogan: "Sears has everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Socks and Stocks | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...Ross last year pulled down an estimated $22.5 million in wages, benefits and the increased value of his stock. Meanwhile, Women's Wear Daily notes that the income figures of U.S. designers are scarcely scanty. Calvin Klein, 39, tops in bottoms, etc., will take $15 million off the rack this year, estimates WWD, and Ralph Lauren, 42, is close behind at $12 million. The money paid to college football coaches was also being checked out. Last week the Miami Herald reported that as the best-paid coach in the U.S., Alabama's Paul ("Bear") Bryant, 68, collects close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 7, 1982 | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

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