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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Milwaukee Bucks Center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reads: "For a true friend in all seasons." The legend on the picture of Bruce Walton (Bill's brother) says: "Maybe it's corny, but I love you." The object of such unabashed affection is a millionaire Los Angeles building contractor, Sam Gilbert. His own three children are grown, and for Gilbert, 61, U.C.L.A. athletes-past and present-are now his family. Gilbert is their confidant, business adviser and surrogate father. Hence the nickname...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Patron Called Papa Sam | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Senior captain White put the team ahead, 13-12, with his lone victory. Sam Anderson lost in overtime in his only defeat of the afternoon to tie the meet again and set the stage for Read's come-from-behind dramatics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Slip by Lions, 14-13; Clinch an Upset in Final Bout | 2/23/1974 | See Source »

Somehow they couldn't pull it off. Loren Joseph and Rutledge both lost their sabre bouts, 5-4. The Cornell team then swept all three foil bouts. With the match now tied. Sam Anderson dropped his match in epee...

Author: By Richard Lehr, | Title: Fencers Fail in Final Round, Lose to Pesky Cornell, 14-13 | 2/19/1974 | See Source »

...overnight. All through the 1960s, oilmen worried constantly that a worldwide glut would lead to a catastrophic slump in prices; gas stations lured motorists with price wars, contests and giveaways of drinking glasses and steak knives; oil-bearing countries eagerly offered rich drilling concessions. And the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Exxon: Testing the International Tiger | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

Sounds like someone's got an eye for the main chance. If the Harvard population were the American public, then W. Donald Brown '74 of Eliot House would be Sam Goldwyn. Brown wrote, directed, shot, edited, appeared in, even ran the projector for Counterpoint at a showing the other night. But mostly he produced it. Brown got an original loan of $400 from the Eliot House entertainment fund. Then he sold shares in the film to 42 students--sending a prospectus to friends in Cambridge, in Eliot House, in the Hasty Pudding Club--to pay his creditors back. Brown even...

Author: By Richard Shepro and Richard Turner, S | Title: Hollywood at Harvard | 2/14/1974 | See Source »

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