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With Smith bringing the ball up the court, Gielen can free himself for good shots without worrying about dribbling. It's basically the same strategy that Roby used a year ago, when he would bring Gielen into the lineup to free Co-Captain Keith Webster for outside shots...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Dartmouth Goes on the Lost Weekend | 2/17/1988 | See Source »

...lost its bearings under J. Edgar Hoover, hounding Martin Luther , King Jr. and running wholesale spy operations against groups that opposed the Viet Nam War. A new and improved agency emerged during William Webster's nine years as director. But there was a palpable sense of deja vu in the air last week. First came news that a black agent had been racially harassed by his white colleagues. Then followed charges that the FBI had conducted wide- ranging surveillance of critics of the Reagan Administration's Central American policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Habits Die Hard | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...Captain Keith Webster made the biggest steal of his Harvard career. With less than 10 seconds left in overtime and the game tied at 91, Webster swiped the ball from Penn guard Chris Elzey and swished a shot at the buzzer for one of the greatest victories in Harvard basketball history...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Deja Vu | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

While Ralph James was not as dramatic as Webster against the Big Green, he was simply the most dominant player on the court...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Deja Vu | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...make fun of ineptitude, it's quite another thing to make it sweet and touching. When Debbie and Mary can get a seen-it-all, done-it-all Greenwich Village audience on its feet, unabashedly doing the hokey-pokey and, later, singing a tender, hushed chorus of Joseph P. Webster's 1868 pop-religious hit Sweet By and By, they deserve to be proud as punch. After the performance, in fact, they even serve punch in the lobby; right to the end, the joke is on us. "One thing that we've proved tonight, surely," says Mark, near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In The Sweet, Funny By and By OIL CITY SYMPHONY | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

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