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...impoverished family and invested much of the rest in the adventures of Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Imitating and burlesquing such heroes, he began concocting science-fiction tales that he mimeographed and sold to other students. One of Siegel's lesser creations was a story called The Reign of the Superman, which featured an evil scientist with a bald head. Superman as villain? The thought is enough to make posterity shudder. But this was not the stuff of greatness. It was only during a sleepless summer night in 1934, after Siegel had graduated, that the grand inspiration came: Superman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...financial community. Said the daily Australian Financial Review: "The savage write-downs . . . are no more than tough-minded demolition and site clearing to facilitate clean rebuilding of the group." In fact, Holmes a Court may thrive once again as the lord of a humbler empire, but his brief reign as a globe-straddling raider appears to be finished for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Harder They Fall: An Aussie raider's tumble | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...During Cornell's reign, the league moved the semifinals and finals to Boston Garden. The Final Four has played there since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ECAC History is Long, Exciting | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

Holleran was the two-time defending champion, but Edge ended that reign with a 17-18, 15-7, 15-9, 15-8 thrashing...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: The Ivies on ESPN | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...like it because they give you free reign to do what you want," the native of Synder, N.Y. says. "We have certain jobs to do but they encourage you to be creative and that's part of my game. I'm not a big, strong player. I'm more of a finesse-style player trying to create things...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Not Badgered Into Coming to Harvard | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

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