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Michael J. Arlen '52, a writer for The New Yorker magazine, declared after considerable thought, "I think Harvard will probably win based on their greater capacity for abstract thought and superior personal hygiene, unless, of course, The Game is played indoors on ice, in which case any good Canadian team is bound to triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Predict | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

Harold Brodkey '51, a colleague of Arlen's at The New Yorker, said that Harvard will win because "everybody knows that Harvard always wins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Predict | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

...created by the same chic Manhattanites she ineptly tries to parody, Janowitz doesn't seem the least bit aware of the element of self-parody in her novel. But, then again, anyone who could agree to appear in those liquor advertisements with Arthur Schlesinger that run in The New Yorker probably wouldn...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: A Jerk In Manhattan | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

...Yorker came up with another kind of answer, or perhaps just an epitaph. It was a bedraggled parrot that a policeman found in Manhattan in November of 1929. "More margin!" the bird squawked, in echo of some desperate stockbroker's greedy injunction to the bird's vanished master in that already vanished era. "More margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Once Upon A Time in October . . . | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...holdout, Gedman's erasure, and Boyd's injury. So I followed the Yanks, who stayed on top far longer than they deserved (on almost no pitching worth mentioning) but eventually, and inevitably, faded. Then I swallowed my pride of last October and followed the Mets (I remain a New Yorker at heart). I was sure they would catch the Cards, but they didn...

Author: By Stephen J. Gould, | Title: On Rooting | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

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