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...turned out, a terrific blizzard struck Squaw Valley just before the Games. No Gauls perished in the snow, despite the .fears of the French skiing official, but whether they made bed check is another matter (Sinatra was not there, but Danny Kaye and Red Skelton were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Way It Used to Be | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

COSIMA WAGNER'S DIARIES, VOL. I, 1869-1877 Edited by Martin Gregor-Dellin and Dietrich Mack Translated by Geoffrey Skelton; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1199 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home Life at Valhalla | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Harvard came right back at the tight Dartmouth defense, led by sweeper John Skelton and co-captain Tom Ryan. Five minutes after the Dartmouth goal, Harvard broke...

Author: By Daniel Gil, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Booters Suffer Hanover Hangover, 2-1 | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

...Dartmouth's Skelton said of Harvard, "That is not a 2-7 team." The Crimson will try to prove this point again as it takes on Williams at home, Tuesday...

Author: By Daniel Gil, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Booters Suffer Hanover Hangover, 2-1 | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

...writes, was to put together "a reactionary anthology," and he has succeeded. Defining light verse is like breaking the idea of a butterfly on the wheel, and Amis wisely avoids stating last words on the subject. But his general categories are small enough to exclude Chaucer, Skelton, Dryden, Pope, Burns and most of Edward Lear ("whimsical," Amis says, "to the point of discomfort"). Amis wants poems that raise "a good-natured smile." He argues that "light verse need not be funny, but what no verse can afford to be is unfunny." He stresses the technical hurdles that the light poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Unapologetic Anthology | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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