Word: ralph
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Ewing is an aggressive player. The most popular black basketball players in the world are the Harlem Globetrotters, grinning minstrels "aping" their game. But the next most popular black basketball players are those without a black presence, whose talent may be intimidating but whose style is unthreatening. Ralph Sampson, the University of Virginia's 7-ft. 4-in. senior center, is more docile and less abused. In fact, fans are given to wondering how much better Sampson would be if he had a rougher temperament. Ewing plays angry. "The way Ewing plays," says Thompson, "he doesn...
...NOTEBOOK: The championship was Cleary's first in his 12 years as Harvard's head coach...The last title came in 1971, the year before he took over from Ralph "Cooney" Weiland.... Since then, his teams have gone to four ECAC finals, losing to B.U. in 1974 and 1975 and to Northeastern last year...Seedings for both Eastern and Western teams in the NCAAs will be announced tonight...The four Western teams that seem to be headed for the NCAAs are Wisconsin and Minnesota of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (known as the WCHA) and Michigan St. and Bowling Green...
...Paul Barton (unassisted), 5:07; N, Steve Lyons (unassisted), 17:31; N, Ralph Robertson (Norm Lacombe, Ken Chisholm), 3:35; N. Dan Potter (Barton, Lyons), 15:44; S, Rick Bowman (Steve Smith, Steve Rhodes), 15:08; S, Ray Shero (Mark Bonneau, Steve Tute), 15:26; N, Barton (Lyons, Dan Forget...
...Monopoly. Ralph Anspach wanted to teach his son a lesson about the evils of a monopoly. Some lesson. It took a nine-year legal battle and $200,000 in lawyers' fees, but last week he made his point. The nation's largest producer of family board games, Parker Brothers, no longer has a monopoly on the name Monopoly...
...principal conductor of the London Philharmonic until 1957; in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Working with precision and economy of gesture, Boult insisted on purely musical, never theatrical interpretations. Knighted in 1937, he premiered much modern music in Britain and was a particular champion of such contemporary English composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst. "It is our duty," he once said, "to do a little of everything modern that is worthwhile, and more than a little of everything English...