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WIDE RECEIVERS. Larry Dorsey, Tennessee State, 6 ft. 1 in., 187 lbs.; and Tinker Owens, Oklahoma, 5 ft. 11 in., 180 lbs. Dorsey, with 4.5-sec. speed in the 40-yd. dash, has impressed the scouts by catching 47 passes this season despite frequent triple coverage. Owens, whose older brother Steve was a Heisman Award-winning running back for Oklahoma six years ago, "doesn't have size or speed but makes the clutch catch." Even though Oklahoma won the Big Eight title this year with a minimum of passing, the scouts say another top wide receiver is Owens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: OFFENSE | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...crazy." Bustling with music and the fever of young musicians, bands swapping songs and members, new jobs and old girls, Asbury Park sounds, if only in memory, like Liverpool before it brought forth the Beatles. Springsteen lived in a surfboard factory run by a displaced Californian named Carl Vergil ("Tinker") West III, who became, for a time, his manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backstreet Phantom of Rock | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...Tinker, the surfboard manufacturer and manager, called Mike Appel on Springsteen's behalf. Appel, whose major claim to fame until then was the co-authorship of a Partridge Family hit called Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted, was smart enough to see Springsteen's talent and brash enough to spirit him away from Tinker. Appel got Springsteen to work up a clutch of new songs by simply calling him frequently and asking him to come into New York. Springsteen would jump on the bus and have a new tune ready by the time he crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backstreet Phantom of Rock | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...tinker with the system any more," Dean Whitlock said last week. He voiced the opinion of many administrators who understand that the days of juggling sophomores in and out of the Hotel Continental, Claverly and Canaday Halls are over...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: The Housing Mess, Revisited | 3/28/1975 | See Source »

...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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