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...rare weather-service planes arrive. But there was a second plane, and out of it descended a six-foot-three-inch character in American uniform and overcoat, the pants pressed knife-sharp, a silver-haired, bushy-mustached major general, whose chest was covered with ribbons from shoulder to rib cage. It was Hurley. Barrett, as senior American military officer, approached, looked the general up and down, offered the observation, "General, it looks as if you have a medal there for every campaign except Shays' Rebellion." Barrett was to suffer for this, as were I and Davies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...pulled rib muscle impaired Lundy's game in close losses to league standouts Eric Fromm (Columbia) and Murray Robinson (Penn). But Lundy came back against nationally-ranked Princeton, knocking off their co-captain, Tom Brightfield, with a stunning 5-4 tiebreaker victory in the third...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Teams Take Off for NCAA Tourneys | 5/24/1978 | See Source »

...balance and pace and, despite his years, the cool confidence that he could win. In his first full year as a jockey, he won 477 races in New York State alone, and this despite a four-week hiatus after a terrifying spill had left him with a broken rib, a smashed arm and facial lacerations. Three times he rode six winners in a nine-race program; four times he won five. In one amazing week he won 23 of the 54 races at New York's Aqueduct Race Track. In 1977 Cauthen's mounts earned more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Kid Becomes a Man | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Despite those wins, the score stood at 3-2 Yale following Cobetto's win, and straight-set losses by Greg Kirsch and Todd Lundy--who never really got going at number one singles against talented Eli Matt Doyle in Lundy's first attempt to come back from a rib injury...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Elis Zap Crimson Netmen, 6-3 | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...became a Brent patient and is already delighted with the result of his surgery, although touch-up work remains to be done. Kaplan has cut his hair short again, and when friends comment on his new ear, he corrects them: "You're looking at a piece of my rib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ears Made New | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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