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...tad bit too stuff shirty...
They seem somehow unlike this fellow from North Carolina. They're a tad anxious, perhaps, vaguely desperate and perspiring a little. Their shirts are coming untucked; their pens are scribbling. They are, he realizes with sudden horror, WORKING...
Yesterday's 5-0 shutout over MIT featured the same timely offense plus solid pitching as the squad's first Northern win over UMass a week ago, but with a little more sock, and a tad more finesse on the mound...
There are exceptions. Political Writer Richard Reeves earns more than $100,000 a year, Diplomatic Expert Tad Szulc makes about $80,000, and Sportswriter Bil Gilbert grosses more than $40,000. But the big moneymakers almost always have some kind of cushion. Reeves has, among other odd jobs, a regular Esquire column that guarantees him $50,000 a year; Szulc does books (twelve to date) as well as magazine work; Gilbert has a contract with SPORTS ILLUSTRATED that places a solid floor under his yearly income. Such props are essential. Says Literary Agent Scott Meredith: "There are no writers left...
...YEARS AGO: Cambridge, Nov. 19 1927. The Elis came through in Coach Tad Jones's last game to blitz Harvard...