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...When upstart Brown knocked off Penn and Princeton last weekend, the purse strings to the Ivy basketball prize knotted up. With Dartmouth, Penn and Princeton on the schedule for the next three home meetings, the hardwood heartstoppers can make up for lost time, and a week from now rest a menacing second to the Bruins, a menagerie Harvard manhandled December...
...will seriously challenge the National Football League for fans. But there is one thing the W.F.L. owners do not lack: money with which to bargain for talent. Last week, before N.F.L. owners could unholster their pens, the W.F.L.'s Southern California franchise signed three top college stars. The upstart league has also drafted 69 other college players, though how many of them will actually sign contracts is still uncertain...
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12; Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Murray Perahia, pianist; Columbia; $5.98). Schumann's piano music-a blend of heroic stride, demonic fantasy and impish humor-requires the age-spanning wisdom and maturity of a Richter or Rubinstein; rarely are the upstart young up to it. In this brilliant recording debut, Bronx-born Murray Perahia, 26, who last year became the first American to win Britain's Leeds International Competition, proves himself to be the rare exception to that rule. Indeed, Perahia may well take a place as the most eloquent lyric...
...this year of upsets in the NFL, the favorites came through yesterday. Minnesota clinched a tie for the Central Division title, beating Detroit, 28-7. Los Angeles crushed the upstart Saints, 29-7. The Falcons kept pace with the Rams in the Western Conference race, outscoring Philadelphia, 44-27. The Cowboys forced eight Giant turnovers and whipped New York, 23-10, their seventh straight loss. The Redskins overwhelmed the disappointing 49ers...
Read has his reward. Cleverer, subtler novels read like a dream-and are just as instantly forgotten. The Upstart reads, at moments, like a near parody. But it impresses on a reader's mind, as sharply as a medieval block print, the shape of the author's conscience...