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...ECAC record (11-14)1 overall, 3-6-1 July), the Crimson's fourth straight losing season. Never in the history of Harvard hockey has Cambridge endured through four straight losing seasons. Never. The latest edition of the four-year saga included a ten-losses-in-11-starts streak, which ran from December 13th's 3-2 loss to Brown to January 31st's 3-2 loss to Clarkson. As a matter of fact, there were four 3-2 losses sprinkled among the ten, all of them at Bright Center. And the season ended with consecutive losses at Cornell, Vermont...
Only a few of the magnetic figures of the Hearst saga ever come to life: Randolph; who was spurred into trying to improve the San Francisco Examiner when critics convinced him of its awfulness and who then faded away amid the flames and communiques of the Patty kidnapping; Bill, trying time after time to grab hold of a paper or to understand how his father had betrayed him; young Will, trying to break out of the circle by joining Jann Wenner in a new magazine called Outside, and discovering Wenner as disappointing a publisher as assorted Hearsts had been. Despite...
SOMEBODY OUGHT TO WRITE a great book about the Hearsts; an epic that has everything. The saga cries out for one: the mining baron who provided the wealth; the son who created the papers and made a fool of himself in print for years; the five overshadowed sons and their spasmodic attempts to claim their heritage; the splashy comic-tragic climax of Patty spitting a debased radicalism in the family's face. They move from "Pop", as William Randolph Hearst is still called by his son, to pop radicalism, bank jobs, and Tommy guns in 50 years. Such a book...
...avoid stirring up the old snakes by trying to revive the big city dailies. In short, lie low or they'll start laughing at us again. It's a fatal doctrine for a publishing company, but in its drift from impetuous pioneering to cautious money-grubbing, the Hearst saga is just a more vivid version of the history of most American business families...
...shuttle saga began almost three weeks ago when a group of drivers threatened to strike unless the University granted them a pay increase. Since they dove into a pool of self-generated controversy, the drivers have backstroked away from any definitive action...