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...should get out of the ring immediately if anyone else got in. "Those guys'll hit anything moving," the author was warned, "the timekeeper, if he got in there; a handyman sent in to check the ring posts; anybody. And as for a writer, those guys'd smack a writer on the beak just to see what would happen." Plimpton sparred without disaster at the Racquet Club and studied a boxing manual he found in the library there, dated 1807. In time. Brown took loudly to calling Plimpton a "tiger," an example of untruth in advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plimping for Fun | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...lessee. Yeah. Richard Pryor, he spose to be uh orange pickuh, or suth-in, an he fall offuh his ladder one day, smack in frontuh uh labor-union cat who axing foh volunteeahs tuh sign up. Photographuh's rat thayuh, an-OOO-EE!-next day Richard, his pitchuh in duh papuh. Orange-growin boss, he don't want no truck with no union, an he run Richard-name's Leroy Jones in duh movie-rat on outuh town, an nemmine that Leroy has tuh leave his wife behine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chicken Flickin' | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...Hughes got his first of two goals (and first of four for the family) of the night after only 39 seconds had elapsed. Continuous Harvard pressure in the Vermont zone resulted in a pretty scoring play, as freshman Tom Murray took a pass from Gene Purdy and laid it smack on the stick of Hughes parked in the slot. George's wrist shot flew over the left shoulder of Vermont netminder Tony Frost into the cage for a 1-0 Harvard lead...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Explode Over Sapped-Out Vermont, 6-3 | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

...short years, the Harvard football program has multi-flexed its way from the top of the Ivies smack into the middle of the heap. Ever since that afternoon in the Yale Bowl two years ago when Mike Lynch kicked a 26-yd, wobbly duck for the deciding field goal and the Crimson's first undisputed title ever, the Crimson's motion, the trademark of the multiflex, has either been illegal or backward...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: There Were Ups and Downs, But Mostly Downs | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

Harvard's snakebit freshman football team ran right smack into a fired-up Bullpup defense, losing 6-0 to Yale, in the 95th meeting of America's longest running freshman rivalry...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Bullpups Stymie Crimson, 6-0 In the (Frosh) Game Clash | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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