Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dartmouth set the stage for the probable championship shoot-out, with sophomore quarterback Frank Polsinello continuing the magic he used to bounce Harvard last week. Polsinello passed for 120 yards to receivers Jack Daly and Shawn Teevens, and got another big game out of halfback Sean Maher, who rushed for 144 yards...
Screenplay by Wallace Shawn and #21 Gregory...
...still positions. But the Dartmouth establishment seems sold on the replacements for the graduated passing combinations of Jeff Kemp and Dave Shula. Rick Stafford--who looked very impressive in last season's finale against Princeton--will get the nod 'at QB. He'll be gunning the ball to Shawn Teevens, a starting wide receiver last year and to any combination of John Idzik, Ray Murphy and John Okeniczik. As directed by Yukica's multiple I to a trio of backs--Shawn Maher, Dennis Ruck, and Rich Lena look to be starters with Peter Lavery at backup...
That reign is nearly over. Despite the cushion of the magazine's success, a certain nervousness hovers in the air in this very inbred, cloistered place. Several years ago, the staff was unsettled by reports that Shawn wanted to turn over some authority to a young man more admired by Shawn than by others around the premises. Shawn ended the uncertainty by posting a two-line notice on the board saying he intended to stay on a while. The editorship is his "as long as he feels he can do the job," says George J. Green, The New Yorker...
...choice of successor will be entirely up to Peter Fleischmann, 58, board chairman and son of the founding owner, Raoul Fleischmann. Nobody is trying to drive Shawn away, yet there is uneasy anticipation among the staff of a transition that will have to come. After 28 years of Shawn's dominance, a new editor will undoubtedly favor different writers, show less interest in some of Shawn's pet subjects, introduce other tastes. Might he even decide that the general reader can be taken into account, just a teeny bit, without jeopardizing the integrity of the writer? Might...