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Center Bill Hozack did the honors, converting a Bill Horton pass into a goal at 5:44 to put Harvard in the thick of the important game. Brown's Skip Stovern thinned things out, temporarily, with a score at 13:03 to make...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Cagers Nip Fordham, But Icemen Lose to Brown | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin was indisputably the greatest golf writer of all time. Reading Darwin, one is transported into the magical pageantry of a bygone era: the enfant terrible Bobby Jones dominated the game and the former caddy Walter Hagen with his thick-skinned eyelids and brillantined hair was lauded as "Sir Walter" by reverential galleries...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Writing About the World's Greatest Golf-Writer | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...thick, solitary splendor of the movie studio, Monroe Stahr weaves dreams. He watches images flicker by in the screening room, demands improvement. Amendments, modifications, excisions-all flow in the sharp, regular rhythm of a master musician keeping time by snapping his fingers. "The last scene was too gory-cut out one roll of the table," or, "Reshoot the whole scene." His taste is peerless, but it would have to be. The production chief of a major studio like MGM in the early '30s, Stahr holds absolute authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Babylon Revisited | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...objects," Dine has said, "I see them as a vocabulary of feelings..." Dine often reworks a plate, taking the print through several states, as in an etching of a paintbrush done in 1970 which Dine reworks two years later, transforming the brush's short straight bristles into a thick beard of long, electrically charged tendrils...

Author: By Susan Cooke, | Title: Themes in Progress | 12/1/1976 | See Source »

...clamshell-like shutters to slow cooling. Similar systems work almost as well in colder climates. In Bedford, N.H., Ralph Tyrrell and Holly Anderson share a three-bedroom house that obtains its heat directly from the sun. South-facing windows catch the sun's rays during the day; foot-thick cement walls absorb heat and help prevent heat loss at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Gift from the Sun | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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