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...Great Silverman Snatch on network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: NBC: Heady for Freddie | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...solid sterling is Silverman's reputation that the stock of ABC immediately dropped 1½ points, while RCA, which owns NBC, rose by nearly the same amount. In the offices and hallways of Manhattan's RCA Building, exultation at the Great Silverman Snatch bubbled through every conversation. Said one executive, reflecting on the recent firing of 300 NBCers by the network: "After all this head chopping, they're doing what they should have done in the first place-getting somebody good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: NBC: Heady for Freddie | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...suffered a severe setback; most of its funds were deposited in a Vienna bank that failed. His only real hope for bringing Mengele to justice would be Israeli intelligence, but the Israelis find the operation too risky. They have sent several teams to Paraguay to study a possible Mengele snatch. After losing at least one agent on a reconnaissance mission, they concluded that the potential losses involved in taking Mengele from his jungle hideaway were prohibitively high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMINALS: Wiesenthal's Last Hunt | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...team wasn't quite that lucky on Sunday, breezing in fifth at Mystic Lake in a meet that B.U. managed to snatch from the always-powerful host team from Tufts. Despite the efforts of captain Laura Brown, who was low-point skipper in Division B, the team couldn't bring its Larks home to victory...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Sailors Falter in Championship Trials | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...15th in 1935. Craig Wood was the leader in the clubhouse and was already accepting congratulations. Bobby Jones had ambled down from the clubhouse just in time to watch Sarazen's second shot take two hops and dive into the cup for a double eagle that enabled him to snatch away the victory...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Bobby Jones And The Ghost of Masters Past | 4/13/1977 | See Source »

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