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Glashow, who appeared on stage with Herschbach and the other laureates, wanted the world to know that he was NOT wearing a Red Sox baseball cap. Hershbach, meanwhile, attempted to hide his identity with a fake nose and glasses combination...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Ig Nobelity Takes Over at MIT | 10/4/1991 | See Source »

Number-two singles player Melissa McNabb is sidelined with an inflammation of the knee cap and may be out as long as two months...

Author: By Dan Jacobowitz, | Title: Knee Cap Injury Sidelines McNabb | 9/27/1991 | See Source »

...bearing (6 ft., 210 lbs.) evoke his earlier days as a lumberjack and steelworker. He's a rough-hewn American version of the Soviet bear, who would look equally at home in overcoat and shapka on the Kremlin reviewing stand with Brezhnev (his favorite Soviet) or in a gimmie-cap at a Fourth of July picnic in Des Moines. He mixes an earthy Midwest charm with a trace of Finnish ancestry ("yahs" sprinkle his speech), which makes it difficult to fathom his lingering bad-guy notoriety. But behind the affable grin lie eyes cold and calculating. Perhaps it is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last of The Red-Hot Believers: GUS HALL | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...Also, I don't believe his stuff. I don't believe that sensing a need to take himself less seriously, he walked downtown wearing a suit and tie and a little kid's cap with a propeller. Or that he wears a watch with a face but no hands, to remind himself that time is eternal. He makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Itty-Bitty | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...Loews chairman who had never fired an employee before taking over CBS in 1986, is portrayed as a Wall Street trader with no strategic vision and few management skills. Tom Murphy, who engineered Capital Cities Communications' 1985 acquisition of ABC, is the hero of this tale by default. Though Cap Cities' no-frills style caused a rude culture shock at ABC, eventually Murphy proved to be the most humane and broadcast- ) savvy of the new network owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: See How They Run | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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