Word: steins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sheehan ran a 4:34 first mile, and captain Stein Rafto notched 4:36, but each still trailed the leaders by about ten seconds. The front-runners put away the race for all practical purposes at the two-mile mark, breezing by in 9:10, 20 seconds ahead of Sheehan...
...much for the exceptions. The returning roster may be reasonably expected to carry the day. First there are the top guns. Senior captain Stein Rafto, sophomore Reid Eichner, and sophomore Ed Sheehan, will lead the pack this year...
...stomach down and almost totally obscured by a mass of towels, heat pads and sweatpants. He looks more like a mummy than the Harvard cross-country captain, but a rustle of movement and then a groggy head rising from beneath the heap of cotton reveals his identity. It is Stein Rafto, standing up in pain to lead the Crimson cross country team on a long early morning...
...publishers waited for authors. Cerf sought them out and flattered, charmed-and signed up-some of the biggest names in the literary world. Together with Partner Donald Klopfer, he turned Random House, which they founded in 1927, into a pantheon of stars: Eugene O'Neill, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, Isak Dinesen, Truman Capote, John O'Hara and W.H. Auden. Now, in this posthumous volume, Cerf tells what goes on behind the bookshelves. Using tapes of his interviews for Columbia's oral history program, along with his diaries and scrapbooks, his widow, Phyllis Cerf...
...supreme gossip, and he had the gossip's alert eye for tattletale details. D.H. Lawrence's wife Frieda was a sloppy housekeeper, he noted, and years later he remembered a dirty milk bottle lying on its side in the middle of the Lawrence parlor. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were so grubbily dumpy that, on a visit they paid to Random House, an elevator boy automatically deposited them on a floor below, thinking they were going to an employment agency for domestic servants...