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Three plays later, with third down and 10 on its 30-yard line, Stetson hit Jack Thomas with a spectacular 45-yard pass. Penn was unable even to halt the Big Green, which scored seven plays later on a one-yard thrust by fullback Steve Webster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Beats Penn, 31-17 To Capture Ivy League Crown | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

Died. Margaret Webster, 67, Shakespearean director and last member of one of Britain's most famous theatrical families; of cancer; in London. Descended from a 19th century clan of classical actors and the daughter of Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty, Webster served her own apprenticeship as a performer on the London stage during the '20s. She found her métier, however, as a Broadway director more than a decade later, and her major triumphs of the '30s and '40s (Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night) made Shakespeare a New York box office success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1972 | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...KENNETH L. WEBSTER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1972 | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...DONALD WEBSTER, MICHAEL JOHNSON and CHRISTOPHER STOWELL are former U.S. trade officials who left the Nixon Administration last fall to form Webster, Johnson and Stowell, Inc., Washington-based brokers of trade deals between U.S. companies and Communist state-owned enterprises. The trio are negotiating a dozen industrial and heavy-construction projects in Eastern Europe, ranging in size from $3,000,000 to $40 million. U.S. firms, the names of which the partners refuse to disclose, would supply technology for the undertakings. Last week Stowell was in Moscow, trying to arrange the sale of U.S. petroleum-testing equipment to the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST TRADE: The New Marco Polos | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

Scoring for the Whalers were Larry Pleau, Rick Ley, and Tom Webster, Attendance at the Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHALER HOCKEY | 10/20/1972 | See Source »

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