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Freshman goalie Corrie D'Alessio filled up the Red's biggest hole--the one in front of the net. D'Alessio has guarded the goal for 717 minutes and has posted a 2.85 goals-against average, making him the league's secondbest goaltender...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Big Red is Red Hot | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, offers playgoers a valuable, if somewhat blurry, look at the handiwork of the U.S. master playwright. George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst do their impressive best by O'Neill, who is mostly at his secondbest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 1, 1963 | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, offers playgoers a valuable, if somewhat blurry, look at the handiwork of the U.S. master playwright. George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst do their impressive best by O'Neill, who is mostly at his secondbest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 25, 1963 | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...convincing the voters that the U.S. is also lagging in the space race, in rate of economic growth, and in scientific-technical education-and that all the lags together add up to a danger that the U.S. may slip to "second best" in the world. Such a composite "secondbest" issue is already shaping up among pundits. But it is a sticky issue for a Democratic candidate to grab hold of, involving a risk that it might lose votes by seeming unpatriotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE CAMPAIGN OF ISSUES In 1960 Candidates Run Against Ideas | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...novel whose first-person heroine, Sister Ursula, obviously walks in the footsteps of Monica Baldwin. Unhappily, Author Baldwin's story of a nun who misjudges her vocation also treads close on the path of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story, and by comparison comes off secondbest. Such fascination as it has lies in the book's embittered documentation of a nun's daily round and the romantic-escapist character of Sister Ursula who acts like an adolescent schoolgirl at the stage door of heaven waiting for God's autograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ex-Nun's Story | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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