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...president, worried that "a lot of people are complaining that I'm going to get first choice of rooms for next year." No one cares enough to oppose his candidacy--Briggsites apparently lack ambition with regard to the dorm power structure. One Cliflie said of Cochran, "He's a sucker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cochran Uncontested For Election To Presidency of Radcliffe Dorm | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break--One of W. C. Fields' best, with Margaret Dumont and a wild movie-within-the-movie. At SYMPHONY II, 262 Huntington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...creations. An evil-grinning feline called a Butterfly Stomper provides a hysterical 30 seconds of irrelevant wickedness; a flying glove proves a wonderfully Kafkasque weapon, and an anteater-cum-dinosaur happily devours everything in sight (including the frame background) by drawing it into his vacuum-cleaner snout. "So long, sucker," yells a Beatle as they escape. Nonetheless, the eclecticism of Edelmann's drawings disturbs as much as it captivates. The difficulty begins when it becomes hard to reconcile the different effects of Warhol-like silkscreen backgrounds, Vanderbeek photomontage, familiar comic strip characters, and Pepperland's Picasso thorny shrubs...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Yellow Submarine | 11/19/1968 | See Source »

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break--One of W. C. Fields' best, with Margaret Dumont and a wild movie-within-the-movie. At SYMPHONY II, 262 Huntington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...handle changeup as well as a fastball?all of which he can deliver either overhand, three-quarter-arm or sidearm?McLain's main assets are speed and control. Cuteness and cunning are foreign to him: he rarely wastes a pitch, and he does not try to sucker batters into swinging at bad balls. "Control is God-given," Denny claims. "Like a good arm. You don't develop it, and I thank God He gave me both." Last month, in a typical McLain display of power and accuracy, Denny fired seven straight fastballs at Carl Yastrzemski, Boston's batting champ. Every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Tiger Untamed | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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