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...earth is a mere blot, darkened at sunset and dotted with strings of insignificant lights and shadows. The propeller whirls, forcing air through my mouth, adrenalin through my system. I feel a light tap on my shoulder and I jump, thinking it is the jump master giving me the signal. "Where the hell is he going?" the jump master asks. "I don't know where he's going," my friend yells with a grimace, "you're the jump master...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Stepping Out Over Taunton | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard football team's record slowly sinks into the sunset, Cambridge residents look longingly at the football powerhouses of the West. They dream of having a team like the University of Southern California (8-0-1), Brigham Young (8-0-0) or Tufts...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Vic Gatto: Doing the Impossible | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

TODAY'S HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER hunts for film scripts like Nero once combed for concubines, but while the Roman mogul's search uncovered ample talent, the Sunset Boulevard set's has unearthed little. The insatiable public demand for commercial properties so far outstrips the screenwriters' meager production that producers are forced to fall back on proven story ideas. The resulting list of products reads like a Porcellian Club roster--Godfather II, Jaws 2, Rocky II, and Gone with the Wind...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: One Sings, the Other Two Don't | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

After the jokes are over, his multiple marriages are an obvious embarrassment to him. "Nobody's proud about having eight wives," he says. "You're supposed to marry your childhood sweetheart and go off into the sunset with a box of Duz, saying, 'It's forever, darling.' It doesn't work out like that, and every marriage and every divorce are like a five-car crash." Several of those marriages lasted long enough to produce children, however: a total of five boys and five girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Andy Hardy Comes Home | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...which was contested at Brown on the 14th. King's Point, last year's North American champion, was favored to top the field of ten. The favorites were leading by one point going into the last race, but could not hold onto the lead as Harvard sailed into the sunset with a two point victory and the Hoyt Trophy...

Author: By David R. Merner, | Title: Harvard Sailors Set Winning Course | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

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