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Take heart, you runners. Time was when the American Presidents reserved congratulatory calls for more formal sports. Golfer Dwight Eisenhower had a preference for Augusta Masters champions; Richard Nixon was fond of Super Bowl coaches. And then last week there was Jimmy Carter calling Boston after watching the 83rd running of the best-known U.S. marathon. White House operators tracked down three-time Winner Bill Rodgers at his running-goods store in Brighton. "Hi," said jogging Jimmy, offering congrats and asking about other finishers. The President also invited Rodgers to a White House dinner next month honoring visiting Japanese Premier...
...legion of moviegoers (and a lot of us are not culturally disfranchised) who like Clint Eastwood movies [Jan. 9]. Why? Because after a tough day of lecturing and sitting through a department meeting on course changes for the 83rd time, I find it fun to watch, in Gauntlet, a bus get the hell shot...
Just to prove that his University high jump record of 7 ft. 2 in, set last week against Yale was no fluke, Mel Embree went out and duplicated the feat while competing in the 83rd Penn Relay Carnival held at Franklin Field in Philadelphia...
They earn a basic $330 a week and are seeking a reported $70 raise. They have been offered $35 but have been asked in return to play four extra concerts a season. Meanwhile, the Chicago Symphony called off the opening of its 83rd season, rejecting an offer by its musicians to continue playing while a new contract is being negotiated. Again, wages were the key issue, although neither side would divulge details. In declining to open without a contract, the Chicago officials seemed fearful that the orchestra would go on playing only until the arrival of Sir Georg Solti (TIME...
...great natural performer, something on the scale of Niagara Falls." That assessment of Tenor Lauritz Melchior by Metropolitan Opera Assistant Manager Francis Robinson is hardly hyperbole. When he died last week two days before his 83rd birthday, Melchior's gargantuan talents and zest for life were firmly established in opera's hagiography...