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This week's trivia question concerns Garrett, who will coach his son, John, a starting wide receiver for the Lions...
From this week's trivia file come this fact: Harvard and Columbia have identical bowl records. Both are 1-0-0 in bowl games, with each squad earning victories in the Rose Bowl. Harvard beat Oregon, 7-6, in 1919 and Columbia beat Stanford...
...manager of Au Bon Pain, Douglas Parker, has the right, along with Harvard, to cancel or deny a permit. Citing local gadfly Logan Evans and his trivia game exploits as something he would object to, Parker says simply, "He annoys people...
...indulges some personal whims. Gardner's first novel, The Flight of Peter Fromm, written when the author was 59, was rejected by several major houses; Kaufmann found it "hilarious" and published it. The low-selling Almanac of American Letters was issued because the publisher found its collage of literary trivia irresistible. (Items: Horatio Alger was unfit for service in the Union Army. The original title of Death of a Salesman was The Inside of His Head. Tarzan does not live in sin, he was married to Jane by her father, a minister. Poet Robert Lowell twice tried to enlist...
...overstated. To be sure, at a time when most TV families inhabit a farcical never-never land, the series has much to recommend it. Its structure is unusually loose and laid- back for a sitcom, avoiding gimmicky plots and rapid-fire gag lines. Its subject matter is the recognizable trivia of family life: a son who won't clean up his room, a child who is afraid to sleep alone after seeing a scary movie, a visit from Grandpa...