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Harvard holds 17 spots on the 26-man squad and two of its standouts. Vince Vanderpool-Wallace and Mel Embree, are back to defend their winning performances in the meet, which was last held at Soldiers Field...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Harvard-Yale Thinclads Face Oxford-Cambridge | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

Harvard's highstepping junior Mel Embree copped All-American honors this past weekend as he flopped himself into a sixth place high jump finish at the National Intercollegiate rack-championships in Provo, Utah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Embree Leaps to Sixth In NCAA Track Meet; Niemi Finishes Tenth | 6/10/1975 | See Source »

...disdain for the middle class are primary elements in Mosley's career. The author goes soupy, however, when it comes to explaining Mosley the man. A comparison to Goethe's Faust-who used evil to gain a higher good-is material for a bizarre satirical comedy by Mel Brooks rather than part of a serious political study. To say that Mosley's anti-Semitism was simply "intellectual and moral carelessness" is practically an insult to Mosley's intelligence. His own son, Novelist Nicholas Mosley, was closer to the mark when he said of his father, "While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Springtime for Mosley | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

They had already tried Bill Cosby and Mel Brooks--the first and second choices--and after Ali on the list came journalist Hunter S. Thompson and Washington Post publisher Kathryn Graham...

Author: By Christopher B. Daly, | Title: Dick Gregory Agrees to Talk On Class Day | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...radio networks, in fact, require that celebrities have at least some allegiance to the products that they claim to enjoy. So have many ad agen cies. Jerry Delia Femina, who handles the Teacher's Scotch account, dealt pragmatically with the problem. When Groucho Marx, Jimmy Breslin, Mel Brooks, Tommy Smothers, et al, agreed to appear in Teacher's ads, his agency started sending them two cases of Scotch a month. And it takes no suspension of disbelief to credit Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle with downing a great deal of Lite Beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: More Truth in Advertising | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

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