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...NOTEBOOK: Crimson stalwart Wiley McCarthy continues to run despite quadricep injuries. McCarthy has been running hurt for the past three weeks and it finally caught up with the slender sophomore in Friday's meet. If McCarthy can recuperate in time for the EAIAWs coming up this Saturday, the harriers stand a good shot...
...predominant images of pro basketball in the early '70s became that of a grimacing, snarling, Cowens ripping down a rebound as sweat poured down his face and shook off his hair. The league soon respected Cowens, but as much more than that hated athletic stalwart, the all-hustle, no-talent scrapper who somehow makes...
When he was ten years old, he got into a schoolyard fight because he was rooting for Al Smith over Herbert Hoover for the presidency. Ever since, Patrick Lucey, 62, has been a stalwart of the Democratic Party, a key reason why Independent John Anderson chose him last week as his vice-presidential running mate...
...Revolutionary War buddy? How could it turn its back on the U.S.? The fact is that France, irritating as its behavior may be, as strictly disloyal as it may be, has been behaving more or less as Americans say that they wish their friends to behave: with a glowing, stalwart independence. Ideally, friends may gain a truer understanding of each other when they agree less and diverge more, and ideally, mutual understanding is an aim of friendship. And so, ideally again, the U.S. should have thumped old France on the back it turned. Of course, ideals really have nothing...
...ratings pile by the end of 1980, Silverman is presiding over disaster. This past season NBC lagged far behind its competitors in ratings, finishing the season with 17.4 Nielsen points, compared with 19.6 for CBS and 19.5 for ABC. The morning Today show, once an NBC stalwart, now trails ABC'S Good Morning America. Silverman's new daytime offering, the David Letterman Show, has fared so poorly that Silverman has already fired three producers. The latest executive calamity comes at the same time as the start of the 1980 Olympics, which NBC was to have covered and which...