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...Captains Alicia Clifton and Kelley, Leelee Groom, Linda Runyon, and the versatile Bambi Taylor--all returning varsity players--figure to be clear leaders on the inexperienced squad...
...Science. Carole I. Chervin, Lowell, Sociology; Mary D. Garrison, Dunster. History and Literature; Vivian S. Lee, Currier, Biochemical Sciences; Nina A. Mendelson, Quincy, Economics; Deborah F. Minehart, Leverett, Mathematics: Anne E. Monius, Dunster, Comparative Study of Religion; Tracy L. Monroe, Cabot, English and American Literature and Language; Linda J. Runyon, Winthrop, Classics: Rena J. Zieve, Dunster, Biology...
...Award winner, he brought much hilarity to the sporting scene by confessing to having bankrolled a betting shop that lost money. Gambling data was just starting to appear in the sports pages and on pregame television shows. But betting had long since been classified as high jinks by Damon Runyon, and this was the rollicking spirit in which McLain was viewed, even when he was suspended for carrying a pistol six months later, two years before his big-league life wore out at 28. He is in a Florida jail now, awaiting sentencing for racketeering, extortion and cocaine possession...
Massachusetts natives account for 55 percent of Harvard's goals, with contributions from Liz Ward (13), Laundry (10), Carney (8), Dinny Starr (4), Genic Simmons (4), Pam DiRubio (1), and Linda Runyon...
...penny-ante gangsters in Mamet's American Buffalo talked of themselves as businessmen; the businessmen of Glengarry talk like gangsters. But gangsters with a weird, Damon Runyon twist. Out of the mouths of these middle-class lowlifes comes the odd flowery word used for screwball effect: "inured," "imperceptibly," "supercilious." The rest of their rhetoric is a litany of abuse, invective and those four-letter words that describe things people do every day in the privacy of their bedrooms and bathrooms. It may be that no salesman, not even these salesmen, would traffic so doggedly in obscenity...