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From this week's tidbit file comes this fact: the number-one spot on the Harvard-William & Mary series scoring list belongs to Madison "Maddy" Sayles '27, who had the game-winning touchdown in the 1925 game, which was played on Halloween...
Naively, I hadn't even thought about the prospect of an anti-apartheid boycott until I read the "Sports People" column in last Sunday's New York Times. In a non-threatening tidbit, the Times reported that Harry Edwards, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, announced that he would lead a boycott if South African athletes were allowed to compete...
...another confusing tidbit. A city councilwoman on that same Monday tossed a number-two man at the city's Department of Public Works from the payroll. The DPW has been revealed as a swarming hive of iniquity by Chief Tony Mancuso's probe, and its deputy director. Edward Melise, lost his DPW job a while back when he was convicted of extortion Mayor Cianci had been nice enough to put Eddie on $503-a-week paid leave, but the council didn't figure that was the right punishment...
...curious question. Meese's own man had just been elected by a landslide. Surely he was in no political danger from any other Republican. Later, at dinner, Meese leaned over to my wife and said, "Don't worry, he's going to make it." Passing along this mysterious tidbit, Pat commented, "My worry is that you will make...
...woman's granddaughter (and conceivably Harding's as well), who is both stupid and immensely fat: "As for her body, I won't go into any details but I will say this: she had a lot of dimples. Everywhere." Weiner's caddish machinations produce a tidbit of news: Grandma has a huge trunk of old papers in her bedroom, and she dips into this cache every night to read herself to sleep...