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...game started tepid and quickly burned up for Harvard. The two offenses exchanged two stalled drives in the first quarter before Harvard freshman Colby Skelton fumbled a punt, giving the Bison the ball on the Crimson 34-yard line. Six plays later, Glus lobbed the ball to senior end Mark Gentile on a slow-curl route, giving Bucknell a 7-0 lead...
...first question in an intimate Oval Office session came from George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times. Ronald Reagan looked squarely at Skelton and started to respond: "Well, Lou . . ." The reporters present, though used to Reagan's lapses, were embarrassed for Skelton as he reintroduced himself. The President had in mind Lou Cannon of the Washington Post, who, like Skelton, had covered Reagan's trajectory from Sacramento to Washington. To Reagan, Cannon was the generic newsie of that vintage...
Reflecting the anger boiling up on Capitol Hill, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) told the House, "The attack is a financial assault on America and on the rest of the world that is dependent on Mideastern...
...pushed toward unwilling retirement typically resembles a Roman candle on the Fourth of July: the blaze is bright but brief, the heat evanesces, and all that lingers is a fond memory in the mind's eye. That is how it has gone for even the biggest stars, from Red Skelton to Walter Cronkite. NBC doubtless imagined it would be no different when it undertook to freshen the Today show by easing veteran co- anchor Jane Pauley toward the sidelines. But in the eight months since Pauley announced she would resign from the show, after seeing her role threatened...
Meanwhile, Gephardt served his House colleagues as assiduously as they served their hometown constituents. Every working day for eleven years, he drove disabled Colleague Ike Skelton to and from Capitol Hill, and he befriended scores of lawmakers, careful to call on junior and senior members in their offices, not his. Perhaps his least-known accomplishment illustrates the point best: a 1979 amendment to the budget act allowed grateful members to vote an increase to program budgets without casting a highly visible second vote to raise the debt limit to pay for such projects. When he set his sights...