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Bigger & Better TV's Greatest Commercials III (NBC) was rated only 28th last week, off sharply from its two top-ten-ranked predecessors. Nevertheless, it was a sponsor's dream, a video scrapbook celebrating the potent appeal of all those 30-second morality tales with happy endings. Among the "classics" shown: the new groom who, after consuming his wife's first meal ("Honey, I've never seen a dumpling that big"), tries to muffle the sound of Alka-Seltzer s fizzing. The show was a form of recall for the audience ("Hey, l remember that...
...28th of that month that the above-mentioned stalwarts, along with eleven other skippers, frisked away into the whitecaps off Newport, R.I., in the first singlehanded round-the-world sailing race to begin and end in the U.S. At 7:11 a.m. on May 9, or 159 days 2 hr. 26 min. after the starting gun (not counting the weeks of layovers between legs), the first of the solo sailors came home from the sea. Only ten had remained in the race, battering their way through more than 27,000 nautical miles of doldrums and depressions, reefs, icebergs and storms...
Berke Breathed must be similary confused because the humor of his February 28th strip was, if anything, less subtle than that of the Trudeau strip. Breathed's target was clearly Steve Dallas, a macho, sexist dog who is invariably shown in an unfavorable light, and not gay men. Frankly, I can't see how anyone could reasonably interpret the strip as you apparently...
Sophomore Jennifer Hale placed 23rd in the women's giant slalom while sophomore Marguret Walter earned 28th in the women's 7.5 km race...
Tickets for the first round on the playoffs--March 4th and March 5th--go on sale this Monday, February 28th, at the Harvard Ticket Office, located in the basement of Harvard Hall...