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DiNicola's fistic fireworks impressed LeJeune's coach, Art Redden. Redden, an artillery gunner who boxed on the 1968 U.S. Olympic team with George Foreman, invited DiNicola to try out for the varsity...
...that prevents people from understanding themselves. Left motherless at age seven, William Scorton is raised by his father, a veteran artilleryman who has used the military to escape from the coal mines of his youth. Equating discipline with love, the father trains his young son to become an artillery gunner; when he takes William to visit his mother's grave, he carts along a compass so that they can make a field map of the cemetery. This utilitarian education takes: William wins a scholarship to the Military College of Science, receives a wartime-accelerated commission in the artillery...
...Tail Gunner" McCarthy nicknamed Harvard the "Kremlin on the Charles," but once all the midwestern farmboys arrive in Cambridge, they soon find out Harvard will train them for the Chase Manhattan Bank and not a revolutionary cadre. It is only natural that Harvard's faculty mirrors this bias. The radical graduate students and assistant professors soon leave for greener, tenured pastures--just take a look at the Cambridge refugees at the U Mass Economics Department...
...Brown gunner Brian Saunders was stalled in neutral for most of the tilt, but caught fire in the waning minutes to cut Harvard's lead to only a bucket several times. A slew of penalty foul situations at the end kept the Crimson in front, as they hit 11 of 12 from the charity stripe...
...suppose there is an uncanny resemblance," says Actor Peter Boyle about his lookalike, the late Senator Joseph McCarthy. Boyle, 40, stars as the Red-baiting chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in NBC's Feb. 6 movie, Tail Gunner Joe. The film, which also features Burgess Meredith as Lawyer Joseph Welch, Patricia Neal as Senator Margaret Chase Smith and George Wyner as Roy Cohn, spans McCarthy's life from his teen-age years to his death in 1957. The title comes from a bizarre publicity stunt staged during his World War II Marine days. To look...