Word: roading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...23rd-ranked Crimson finished its annual road trip to the West with a 1-5 record, dropping its overall record to 7-11. Harvard lost to 16th-ranked San Diego, 6-0, U.S. International 6-3, 18th-ranked San Diego State, 6-3, third-ranked UCLA, 7-2, and 12th-ranked Pepperdine, 5-1. But the Crimson destroyed Cal-State, 9-0, to close out the trip...
...first time since November, there was no hockey game to watch. There were no walks across the river, past Blodgett, past Briggs to Bright. No road trips to upstate New York or subway rides to Boston Garden...
...Ross are planning to go slow in integrating the various divisions. Only the cable and books operations will be immediately combined. All others will continue to operate as separate units, with Warner's old divisions reporting to Ross and Time's to Munro and Nicholas. Five years down the road, according to the merger agreement, the management will be unified, with Nicholas as the chief executive. "We're not going to crash these two companies together," said Nicholas. Both Time and Warner believe their greatest opportunities for cooperation and growth lie overseas. Ross, for example, hopes to use Warner...
...very much." Reese knows something about both. Seventy-two springs ago, he was the Pacific Coast League Angels' eleven-year-old batboy for "Peerless" Frank Chance. Playing with the Yankees in 1930, Reese and Lefty Gomez split a $2-a- day suite at the new Edison Hotel. On the road, Jimmie stayed with Babe Ruth. "I roomed with the Babe's luggage, mostly," he says in a tone of wake- me-when-a-better-carouser-comes-along. "He was up all day and at 'em all night. When it was Ruth in the peephole, the speakeasy doors couldn't open...
...ratings. But as the Married . . . With Children flap demonstrated, ratings are not everything, even along Madison Avenue. "What Married . . . With Children has done is make everybody take a sharper look at standards," says Betsy Frank, a senior vice president of Saatchi & Saatchi advertising. NBC, under attack for its low-road programming, is re-creating the position of vice president of program standards and policy, eliminated last year for budgetary reasons. The network is also setting up meetings with ad executives to explain its policy for screening out offensive material...