Word: ace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only other individual event in which the Cadets could come up with a winner was the one-meter diving. Army's Scott DeHaven took first from Crimson ace Jeff Mule, but Mule came back strong on the three-meter board to team with freshman Karl Illig for a one-two finish...
...this point, Tong accidentally hit Harrison in the head with her racquet. It seemed to wake Harrison up. Playing with a new intensity, the Crimson ace won 12 of the next 13 points to win the third game...
DIED. George Raft, 85, actor who epitomized the tightlipped, coolly menacing tough guy in such films as Each Dawn I Die (1939) and Mr. Ace (1946); of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A grade-school dropout who grew up in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, Raft took jobs as a prizefighter, a baseball player and an exhibition dancer before he was discovered by a director at Hollywood's Brown Derby restaurant and won the movie roles that led to his breakthrough in Scarface (1932). In his later years his career lagged, and he was barred from...
Saturday's race gave Hackett a chance to work on his second 500, the portion of his race he considers the weakest. By coming back in 4:30, after swimming a full morning workout, Harvard's distance ace demonstrated he is still King of the Hill on the Eastern Seaboard...
After posting a decisive victory in the 400-yd. medley relay to kick off the afternoon, Harvard received its only suprise of the day, when Navy's Vince Smargesse upset Crimson diving ace Jeff Mul to capture first-place honors from the one-meter board...