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Supermanager Mark McC or mack, 50, already has a locker room full of sports clients on the order of Tennis Ace Bjorn Borg, 25, Golfer Arnold Palmer, 51, and former Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali, 39. Now his Cleveland-based International Management Group has taken on a client of an even higher order: Pope John Paul II. McCormack is not seeking aftershave endorsements for the Pontiff, but he will try to make sure that the British Catholic Church will not lose money on John Paul II's visit to England, Scotland and Wales next spring. McCormack will take...
...others have credited Usher with helping the men's squad achieve a perfect 9-0 record in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association last year. The team also made it to the final 16 of the NCAA championships last year and produced Harvard's first All-American--sophomore first-singles ace Howard Sands...
...Angeles Dodger Pitching Ace Fernando Valenzuela, 20, looked confused, it may simply have been that like some Washington Senators, he was wondering whether Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin, 49, a former actor, had a good grip on the situation. The Mexican-born Valenzuela certainly knows every stitch on a baseball, as his 9-4 record attests. At the White House, where he helped welcome visiting Mexican President José López Portillo, the beer-fueled screwballer seemed to wish he were high and outside. Said Valenzuela: "All this attention doesn't bother me. I have four days...
...outside. In Sioux Falls, Citibank will offer other banking services besides its credit cards, but the local First National Bank is not worried, even though it has assets of only $172 million, compared with Citibank's $116.5 billion. First National Chairman William S. Baker III says confidently, "The ace up our sleeve is customer loyalty, and we have greater flexibility than the big corporate banks...
...oarsmen were busy upholding a 120-year tradition of supremacy on the Charles, the softball team, in its first season on the varsity level, was rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the finest squads in the New England area. With the help of three varsity basketball players--ace pitcher Nancy Boutilier, third baseman Pat Horne and six-foot-tall slugger Elaine Holpuch--the team won 14 games, scoring more than 15 runs in most of them...