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Impressed by his performance at those schools, Brown Coach Alva Kelley hired him as an end coach and as head scout for the Bears in 1956. There, he helped Brown to three consecutive winning seasons (5-4-0, 5-4-0 and 6-3-0), no small feat considering that the Bears had gone 2-7-0 in 1955 and have traditionally been an Ivy League doormat...
...Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas Fils. As this story has been popular for more than a century, legendary actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse have played this fascinating courtesan. Several incidents in Garbo's own life led her to take the role: her own sister Alva died of tuberculosis and she suffered from similar physical ailments. And Marguerite's emotional self-containment curiously parallels the offscreen distance Garbo carefully maintained from both of her eager costars, Taylor and Barrymore...
JUST DON'T CALL HIM ALVA...
...American male since Bill Johnson struck Olympic gold in 1984. Kitt was serving notice that he had arrived -- just in time, if all goes according to plan, to max out next week on the slopes near Val d'Isere for an Olympic medal. (The A in AJ stands for Alva, which the racer despises; the J signifies nothing but goes well with A.) After skiing on the new Olympic downhill run last month at Val d'Isere, Kitt complained that its twisty course might disrupt his timing. But his resolve is unshaken. "I don't let anything...
...latest polls show Vargas Llosa with an estimated 44% of the vote, well ahead of the closest of his three opponents, Luis Alva Castro of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. Because a candidate must attract 50% of the vote to win, a June runoff is likely. Vargas Llosa is expected to prevail, but once ensconced in the presidential palace in Lima he may look back upon his campaign days with longing. His party, Libertad, is one of three parties in the Democratic Front (Fredemo) -- an unruly coalition in the best of times -- which is unlikely to win a majority...