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...took thirteen innings to do it, but Harvard's baseball squad finally squashed a surprisingly tough Columbia team...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Crimson Nine Tops Lions In Thirteen Innings, 6-2 | 4/13/1974 | See Source »

...stopped working simultaneously. No sooner were the spirits exorcised and the machines back in operation than the IBM computer in effect swallowed the entire cover story; it developed a flaw in its programming that sent the copy circling endlessly through memory loops from which it could not be retrieved. Thirteen hours and a second expert exorcism later, the IBM 370/135 snapped out of its trance and grudgingly returned the finished story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 4, 1974 | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...countdown is on. Thirteen months from now Soprano Beverly Sills will at long last make her debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera. It will be an event both long awaited and long overdue. Sills will be 45 when she steps onto the Met stage in Rossini's The Siege of Corinth, and the question is whether, at an age when many divas fade, she will still possess the fabulous voice and technique. The uncertainty exists because she does have occasional off nights, and may be performing too much for her own good. But she is a crowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Besting Bellini | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...National Invitational Tournament selected four teams yesterday for the annual college basketball event at Madison Square Garden. The four were Hawaii, St. John's, Massachusetts, and Manhattan. Thirteen teams remain to be chosen for the tourney, held March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA-NIT BIDS | 3/1/1974 | See Source »

...albums are shots in the old vein-Veterans Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks with their 2000 and Thirteen-year-old man or the literate stand-up style of David Steinberg's Booga Booga. But the hottest newcomers are the "rock" comics, whose pot-and pop-flavored material is aimed directly at the under-30 funny bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Man, Is That Funny? | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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