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Despite tight economic times, cash registers are jingling as loud as ever at most bookstores this season. Things have gotten so jolly at nearby book stores it's easy to get waylaid by bad books on the way to the check-out. What follows is a guide to some of the modern morass of printed matter, as well as a sampling of which works qualify as more defensible acquisitions...
...happened again Saturday, with the Bulldogs whipping UPenn, 24-3, and Brown and Columbia losing to outside opposition. Holy Cross waylaid the Bruins, 34-24, while Colgate bombarded the Lions, 41-3. In an Ivy contest, Dartmouth hobbled a defenseless Cornell squad, 42-7, and remained unbeaten in League play...
...Almost every event was closely contested," McCurdy said. "We didn't have the luxury of having things go against us." Unexpected misfortune waylaid the thinclads in the 400-and 55-meter dashes...
...Tynan. As a U.S. Senator from New York, Alda sets out to block the Supreme Court appointment of a flagrant racist. Well and good, and done with exceptional verity as a result of Alda's research on Capitol Hill. But Tynan gets sidetracked by some unexpected motions. Waylaid by Meryl Streep, as an activist lawyer, he ends up in bed with her, swilling beer and swapping cloakroom stories...
...different Harvard squad that took Bill Beck Field yesterday. First-year coach Alex Nahigian's bunt and double-steal oriented philosophy had been waylaid, the hitters were suddenly aggressive throughout the order, and the pitching staff took a giant step toward consistency...