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Scott's batterymate, Gary Miller, was a principal thorn in the side of four Boston College pitchers. Miller stroked a 350-foot home run in the fourth to bring the Crimson back from a 2-0 deficit. Miller had two hits and two walks on the day, and scored twice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Nine Topples B.C., 10-5 | 5/12/1965 | See Source »

...have been replaced by rounder, softer toes, and heels are becoming even shorter and wider. At the same time, somewhat alarmingly, teen-age boys are taking to high heels. International Shoe has had a runaway success with its "Beatle Boots," which have 11-in. tapered heels; Melville Shoe Co. (Thorn McAn) has brought out a boot with a 2-in. tapered heel, also offers the teens zebra stripes and wildly colored linings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: The Shape of Shoes | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

Wednesday, March 3 1 ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).*"Thorn of Plenty," a report on the hard life of California's migrant farm workers and the crucial labor shortage faced by fruit and vegetable growers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...owner of many buildings that the University has long wanted to buy, Miss Cohen once said she delighted in being known "as the thorn in the side of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miss Cohen, Local Landlady, Dies; Her Estate Is Valued at $20 Million | 2/3/1965 | See Source »

...control of a Boston bank, made himself bank president at 25, and married Mayor John ("Honey") Fitzgerald's daughter Rose. When World War I broke out, Kennedy went to work for Bethlehem Shipyard in Boston as assistant manager, helped the yard break one production record after another. Chief thorn in his side was another ambitious young man, Navy Assistant Secretary Franklin Roosevelt, who drove such a hard bargain that he occasionally reduced Kennedy to tears, and once, when Kennedy refused to deliver two battleships to Argentina until payment was received, F.D.R. ordered the ships towed out of the yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Driving Will | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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