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Neither team could open up a lead in the first half, as each came up with four or six straight whenever the other had inched ahead. The half ended with Penn desperately trying to tip in a rebound for at least a slight advantage, but Harvard gutted out that melee, and coach Frank McLaughlin led an upset-minded and pumped up squad off the court...

Author: By Jeefrey R.toobin, | Title: Penn Holds off Cagers, 88-79; Mannix Hits for 23 in Defeat | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...with registration plates marked DEMOCRAT. As the car sputters to a stop, an announcer declares: "The Democrats are out of gas. We need some new ideas. Vote Republican-for a change." No one is laughing harder than Steffe's jowly, white-maned, thoroughly Democratic look-alike-House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Allowed O'Neill: "I'm a far more handsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Driving Home a Point | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...begins to wonder whether he wandered off the set between each "Action!" and "That's a take." Before Navin acquires his fortune by inventing the "Optigrab"--a device which holds eyeglasses to the face by running a piece of wire from the bridge of the glasses to the tip of nose--Marie leaves him, apparently because he is not wealthy. As she composes her farewell note, a heavily-made-up Peters cries crocodile tears--as mascara and eyeshadow smear their way down her face. Reiner does not allow her to escape with her looks intact, let alone her pride...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Jerk-of-all-Trades | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

...Northeastern bounced back one last time, scoring on a tip-in by Turner at 17:04 of period three, sending the game into overtime and giving the Huskies their chance to knock the archrival Terriers out of the Beanpot in what was a vicious dogfight

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Huskies Tip B.U. In Overtime | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

Cities usually have mayors, but Key West, Fla., has a king-Tennessee Williams. On Jan. 24 the king, who has maintained a home on this southernmost tip of the continental U.S. since 1949, was in his reigning glory. The freshly completed $3.5 million Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, a unit of Florida Keys Community College, was dedicated; the day was officially proclaimed Tennessee Williams Day. His previously unproduced play, Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis?, was given its world premiere. After the curtain dropped, a bash ensued in the theater lobby, complete with torrents of champagne and the sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Apparitions and Cakewalkers | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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