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Half a century later, the smart money has vanished into depressed stocks and inflated currency. And The New Yorker has survived-no, flourished. The upstart has become an establishment, the iconoclast an institution. In his anniversary thesaurus of anecdotes, Here at The New Yorker (TIME, Feb. 24), Brendan Gill describes his 40-year career at the magazine as "playing the clown when the spirit of darkness has moved me and colliding with good times at every turn." It is a deceptive portrait of The New Yorker; like a shaving mirror, it gives only part of the picture. Once upon...
...Alderman. We're with you," are words often heard. That people who owe their jobs to Daley's political machine would even cautiously express such support for an opponent is a token of what has happened to Singer's campaign. The impossible dream of an energetic upstart with a lot of nerve has turned into the most serious challenge to Daley's rule since his election as mayor...
...surprise, though, is upstart Stanford. On a campus where football has long been the sport and athletics in general do not have a high priority, the basketball team has suddenly become a contender. It was Stanford that last month threw the conference into its current disorder with' back-to-back victories over U.C.L.A. and Southern Cal. Those upsets, dubbed "the Maples Miracle" (after the team's home court), marked the emergence of 7-ft. Senior Center Rich Kelley as the Pac-8's overbearing figure. In the two games, Kelley hit for a total of 52 points...
...them to answer questions about committee procedures and policy. "No one turned us down," reported Ottinger, who noted that he had never even met some of the formerly aloof chairmen in his previous six years in Congress. But now, figuratively hat in hand, the aging power brokers faced their upstart inquisitors...
...week, they could hardly be blamed. With an undefeated streak stretching through 21 games-longest in the team's proud history-the Canadiens had every reason to assume that the nearest challenger in their N.H.L. division was far behind in a shower of ice chips. Not so. The upstart Los Angeles Kings, previously one of the league's most feckless losers, were within a thin one point of the streaking Canadiens...