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Former All-Ivy receiver Jim Curry was in town recently to drop off his sister Caryn at Quincy House. The third-leading Harvard pass snatcher of all time was signed as a free agent by the New York Giants, but 'The Turk' got the better of him. Curry started off like gangbusters in a scrimmage with the Jets, but then saw 11 minutes of action against the Steelers and five ticks against the Browns...
...Always refer to Derek Bok as "The Turk...
...Ecumenical Patriarchate has been caught up in the latest phase of the long-standing feud between Turk and Greek. After the Byzantine capital fell to the Ottomans in 1453, Constantinople (now Istanbul) became the heart of a once vast community of Christian Greeks, or Rum* (rhymes with tomb), in Turkey. Terrible cruelty set in with the 1821-29 war, in which Greece won its independence from Turkey. During that period Patriarch Gregory V was hanged at the gate of his palace. Even so, the Rum still numbered 1.5 million by World War I. Today only 7,000 are left...
Both Penders and McLaughlin are being considered to replace Dick Stewart, another Young Turk, as head coach of Fordham. Penders was recently interviewed for the past--but right now, all he's thinking about is tonight's impending imbroglio with Penn. As for McLaughlin: as the Harvard mentor said after watching his team lose to the Lions, "I wouldn't mind having a ticket for that game...
Watching Scofield slip effortlessly from dying Volpone to robustious Fox is as fascinating as the unfolding of his intricate schemes. One minute he is the Venetian magnifico, reveling in his gold and his audacity and boasting that even "the Turk is not more sensual in his pleasures than Volpone." The next he is an old man of faltering soprano. "Oh," he says, "I am sailing to my port and I am glad I am so near my haven...