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Supporting Heyel are two other fine starting pitchers. Tom Early and Terry Sweeney shared the duties in a seven-hit, 4-0 whitewash of Bates in Columbia's opener. Also one of the leading hitters on the team, Sweeney starts at third base when not pitching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Pitching Staff Must Stop Columbia and Army in League Race | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...three Harvard graduates who will gather in the sheckles from this adventure into Madison Avenue conjure up one Ivy stereotype after another, blow on it with their windy wit, and leave it. In the face of unsubtle attempts to infuse rewrites of admissions booklets with local color--paint it whitewash--all of the eight Ivy League schools come out remarkably the same...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Ivy League Guidebook | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...fact in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, who died in 1913 at the age of 53 and was, to put it simply, as mad as a hatter. He disgraced himself at Oxford by going to a fancy dress ball as a raven and voiding a pint of whitewash from his tail in front of the Prince of Wales. He converted to Roman Catholicism and, in pursuit of holy orders, got himself expelled from two different seminaries for "lack of vocation." He then assumed the bogus title Baron Corvo and tried his loser's hand at painting, photography, journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Paranoid as Pope | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Yale, which dropped a 2-0 decision to Brown last week, again failed to score in Ivy play. This week Columbia, notching its second consecutive whitewash, squeaked by the Elis on a first period goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Booters Only Unbeaten Squad After Three Weeks of Ivy League Play | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

...Plant?" (meaning: "What constructive plans do protesters propose for the society of the future?"), the Daley defense was produced by Henry Ushijima, a California-born filmmaker who for five years has been paid by Chicago to turn out short documentaries celebrating the city. Actually, "Trees" was a surprisingly artful whitewash. In his handling of English, Daley is the Casey Stengel of American politics; he was wise enough to limit his physical participation in the film to two brief appearances. Ushijima waded through miles of television footage made during the convention week and spliced to gether scenes of New Leftist gatherings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Refighting Chicago | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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