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...Phillies drew two more weapons from their arsenal to swipe the second game, 1-0, behind the sterling relief work of Gene Garber (2.37 ERA) and a tenth-inning single by ex-Dodger Ted Sizemore (.282), who represents the Philly slap-hitting contingent...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Skirmishes Over, Baseball Playoff Battles Begin | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

...source close to the Development Office believes that the Corporation will opt for a three-year, $225 million drive ending in 1981. He notes that '81 will be Bok's tenth year in the College presidency and Bok, this source says, has mentioned to fellow administrators that he will stay in his present post for only ten years. Although that intention is far from definite, the completion of the drive would be a fitting swan song for a departing president...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Capital Weekend | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

Reed Eichner crossed the tape first for the Crimson with a time of 26:22 that placed him tenth overall. Penn swept the first three places with captain Steve Sholtes leading the charge followed by teammates Richard Mohler and Kenneth Roberts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Trail in Tri-Meet; Quakers Breeze to Easy Win | 10/1/1977 | See Source »

...hero of Philip Roth's tenth book is Jewish and unhappy. So what else, as Alexander Portnoy's mother might say, is new? Indeed, David Kepesh is the same slick monologuist that Portnoy was, given to frequent exclamations, flurries of rhetorical questions ("Is she not the single most desirable creature I have ever known?") and carefully italicized emphases. He tosses off one-liners (calling, for instance, his Aunt Sylvia "the Benvenuto Cellini of strudel") as if he has a stable of Borscht Belt writers churning out his material. On the psychiatric couch, Kepesh is a regular lie-down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Return of a Jewish Centaur | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

Playing at number two, freshman Glenn Alexander carded his second consecutive round of 79, and for the second straight day took a double bogey on the final hole. Alexander started Saturday's round on the tenth hole, so his costly miscue came on the 230-yard par three ninth, where he sprayed a four wood into a grove of trees...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Storm to Seventh Place Finish | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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