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Majmudar, a Staten Island, N.Y. native, had finished her tennis career at New Dorp High School with a 105-1 record, her loss coming in her very last match. She had won the city singles championship all four years. Her play on the junior circuit had made her the 27th-ranked player nationally in the Girls 18s singles...
Madge Roberts, finishing in 27th place, had a special day on Saturday, shooting below 100 for her first time ever in a tournament. She ended the competition with scores...
...Mattingly (his first Series in a noble 13-year career) and, for the Astros, some clutch hits by Yankee reject Andy Stankiewicz. The seventh game was a 1-1 tie after 26 innings, equaling the record set by Brooklyn and Boston in 1920. In the top of the 27th, the Yanks got four runs off late-season call-back Mitch Williams. In the home half of the inning, Houston loaded the bases but had exhausted its roster. Who would come to bat? Finally, a wheelchair appeared on the field and a nurse rolled Jeff Bagwell to the batter...
Much like Sorrow's central character, Kien, Ninh put his thoughts and experiences on paper long after the war's end. Though the author says his tale "is pure fiction," there are other similarities. Both writer and character are decorated soldiers in the NVA's 27th Youth Brigade. Each is among the unit's 500 conscripts who enter the war in the bloody Central Highlands -- and one of only nine survivors by the time the unit becomes the first to march into Saigon in 1975. After he was demobilized in 1976, Ninh tried university for a while and then quit...
Davenport was sent to join the 27th Division in the Philippines to prepare for the invasion of Japan. But he and others said they were glad the action they planned was unnecessary...