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...upstart weekly, which cost 15 cents andvaried in length from eight to 16 pages, was afinancial success at first. The Whataveraged 24 pages and was distributed for freeduring its last years...
After beating Harvard, 3-1, in the opening round, Michigan (11-3-3 overall) had little problem dropping upstart Michigan Tech team 7-1 in the tournament's final...
...Turner may be the only one who ever thought CNN could come so far so fast. When Turner first launched the upstart 24-hour news operation in 1980, under the guidance of its brilliant but volatile president Reese Schonfeld, it had a staff of 300 and a newsroom tucked into the basement of a converted country club. Technical flubs were common: on the very first hour of CNN's first day, a story about baseball star Reggie Jackson was cut short when the transmission from New York suddenly went dead...
Instead, an upstart Brown team took the title...
...some tough times. Coach Bill McCutcheon must make do with a rag-tag offense (a weak recruiting class and only two remaining guns, Ryan Hughes and Joe Dragon). His young defense, however, looks reasonably solid. Upstart Parris Duffus mans the pipes, and David Burke and Paul Dukovac will anchor the blue-line. Visions of Harvard Hockey...