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...title match still titillating their memories, true Harvard sports afficienadoes are trouping to the IAB today for the first round of the intramural boxing tourney. Tuck a six-pack of Bud under your arm, steel yourself with your towniest "Kill de bum!", and join them. Next week, it's roller derby in Providence...

Author: By Patrick J. Hindert and Mark R. Rasmuson, S | Title: Intramural Meet Recalls Glory Of the Ghosts of Boxing's Past | 3/4/1969 | See Source »

...desk, wire service machines behind it. Nixon has had them all moved out, but even so Johnson seems to foresee that the new President will also be affected by the tone of the news. He begs the press to treat Presidents more evenly-"instead of on a roller coaster that carried them from unreasonable heights at the beginning of their tenure to unreasonable depths once the honeymoon was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: L.B.J.'s Musings About the Media | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Moving to Marion, Ohio, young Harding dabbled in teaching, browsed briefly over law books, sold insurance, played his cornet at the roller-skating rink, and rode the bench as substitute first baseman on the town's ball club. He also began to master perhaps his most highly developed skill: draw poker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kiss Me, Harding | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Barth and Nabokov: Come to the Funhouse, Lolita | 11/18/1968 | See Source »

...Levine often visited his father's dress factory, and his deft, murkily lit watercolors of those scenes show that he remembers them fondly and well. He also spent many happy hours at Coney Island, and his sparkling yet dreamily poetic sketches recapture the sleepy magic of glinting waves, roller coasters and bulging bathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Coney Island Daumier | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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