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This attitude, she insists, is one of the main reasons the facilities are so poor. She recalls a run-in with a department secretary who controlled the keys to all the piano practice rooms. "When I asked her for the key to the grand piano, she looked up at me...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Practice Made Perfect? | 5/1/1981 | See Source »

A pair of young hurlers with smatterings of big league experience will get a look. Lefty Bruce Hurst was spotty in his stint with the Sox last summer (2-2, 9.10, one run-in with Don Zimmer) but is rated as a definite prospect by the organization. Righty Jim Dorsey...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Red Sox Prospectus: The Young Arms | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

A sign that this transition might not be a smooth one came when Caspar W. Weinberger '38, soon after getting the job, fired the defense transition team and had a run-in with its head, William R. Van cleave, Reagan's hawkish chief defense adviser, who during the campaign had...

Author: By James G. Herzhberg, | Title: The Endless Transition | 2/13/1981 | See Source »

But then, in a characteristic run-in with the powers that be, Rooney quit over CBS's refusal to air his essay on war-written, he recalls, from the perspective of "a soft hardhat." The network sold him the piece for a nominal sum, and he took it to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Rooney Tunes | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

Blithely pedaling near his summer home on Long Island to pick up the Sunday papers, former New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay had an unexpected run-in with a non-voter. The cyclist, a distinct long shot in his bid to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator, swerved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 30, 1980 | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

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