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...storybook ending to a storybook career. The Harvard men's track team delivered a convincing mile relay victory to cap off an 86-77 triumph over Northeastern in Coach Bill McCurdy's last regular season meet Saturday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Hold On, 86-77 | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...case right out of Agatha Christie, a high-society saga with all the elements of mystery: a beautiful woman in a coma, an aristocratic second husband, suspicious stepchildren and a fabulous fortune. This is no storybook yarn but a true-life tale that has scandalized the gentry. The final chapter began to unfold last week in Newport, R.I., where jury selection was nearly completed in the trial of Claus von Bülow, 55. He is accused of attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha with injections of insulin, precipitating the coma in which she has languished for more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of the Sleeping Beauty | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...skaters pulled one straight from the storybook last night, rallying for two goals in the last minute and a half of the third period to tie Northeastern's J.V. squad...

Author: By Jon Losos, | Title: J.V. Icemen Bounce Back, 4-4, Tie Huskies on 3rd Period Goals | 12/1/1981 | See Source »

Nothing was missing from this storybook climax to an 0-3 season of courage, good humor, and intense determination. Outweighed and outplayed by their opponents, as they have been every year for as long as anyone can remember, the Bellboys never abandoned hope, and for the first time since 1978, they walked away from a game with points they could call their...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Lowell's Six Big Ones | 11/6/1981 | See Source »

...revived in love, rides through the meadow, and the colors chorus riotously: her hair is rifle-fire red, the grass a Midas gold, the trees electric green, her horse an impossible white-and as it gallops by, its tail waves bright yellow in the new morning breeze of a storybook kingdom brought to life in the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Raise the Colors | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

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