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...take heart, you ain't seen nothing yet. Seventeen hundred freshman of the Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1978 still have to fight each other and the registrar and then run the snake-like gauntlet of group representatives peddling their wares before they can officially say they are Harvard students...
...hands, letting things simmer just a minute. He is about to let go and he hears a voice, loud and gleeful, come right out of the stands clear across to him: "Hey, man-you're the fourth-best guard in the league right now, and you ain 't movin' up 'till somebody dies!" Frazier blows the shot right there...
...Town, founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan and celebrated in film and folklore, still beckons homeless boys to its 1,500-acre campus just outside Omaha. The statue of a tattered waif, a smaller lad slung over his shoulder, still stands at the entrance with the legend: "He ain't heavy, Father. He's m' brother." Otherwise, Boys Town is a community rocked by change...
...victories along with 19 by his brother Paul ("Daffy"), led the Gashouse Gang to the pennant; the brothers won two games apiece as the Cards took the World Series. Compulsively impish, Dean approached the Boston Braves' bench before one game and announced with characteristic corn-pone bravado: "I ain't pitchin' no curves today, boys." True to his word, he then "fogged over" nothing but fastballs, pitching a three-hit shutout. Dean's brilliant career was prematurely curtailed by injuries, and he retired in 1941 with a record of 150 wins against 83 losses. Later...
...scenes with his brother Happy. Special mention must be made of Mark Swiney as Happy, the only one in the family who has learned his trade, who picks up the scraps of Willy's dreams and sells them on the small-time circuit for twice the price. It ain't a great life, but he gets by. Swiney catches hold of the character and he never lets go the entire time he is on the stage. He has obviously thought through how Happy would sit in a chair, how he would hold a cigarette or pick his teeth...