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...Crimson overcame a 10-0 first-quarterdeficit to score 27 unanswered points, 20 of whichcame in the second half. Harvard came back not bythrowing, as one might expect, but by jamming theball down Brown's throat with 54 rushes for 328yards...
Nostalgically, Bill Feingold intones the excruciating litany. "Having your tongue torn out, and your throat cut across," he rumbles, recalling words memorized on a New York City rooftop 38 years ago. "And buried in the sands of the sea, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in every 24 hours--if you should reveal the secrets belonging to the degree of first-degree Mason. The second degree is to have your breast torn open and left prey to the vultures of the air. The third degree..." If he wonders whether anyone really cares what happens when you reveal the secrets...
...Opera soprano Dorothy Kirsten and baritone Robert Merrill for pointers on technique. "He knew they knew...how to maintain the equipment," Sinatra's longtime conductor, Vincent Falcone, told writer Will Friedwald. That stuff in the whiskey tumbler he used onstage was often tea. Booze, he knew, could batter the throat...
...bits of nightclub chivalry that Frank knew all about, like how to light a lady's cigarette. All the same, they wanted to cut loose, the way Sinatra wore his tie--undone, a sign of his narrow escape from a workaday world that could still seize them by the throat...
That David vs. Goliath matchup otherwise known as the U.S. government vs. Microsoft rages in Washington, which brings a lump to the Couch Potato?s throat. Forget Bill v. Janet -- we?re strictly old school here, and this reminds us of cinema?s epic battle -- the one between Godzilla and a succession of plucky residents of Japan...