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...Walsh said. “And I don’t want to have that gap. [BC] means a lot more than a lot of other teams on our schedule because New England’s so important to us.” Staked to an early lead, ace Shawn Haviland, on the heels of another Ivy Pitcher of the Week honor, could not cage the high-flying Eagles. After retiring the side in order in the first, Haviland ran into trouble in the second, surrendering four runs on three hard hits. The tail end of the lineup did most...
Serving at deuce in the final game, Chiu put an ace past his Big Green opponent to take the advantage. He then finished his career with a strong forehand that found the deep left corner...
DIED. Scott Crossfield, 84, civilian aircraft designer and cold war test pilot who in 1953 became the first man to fly at Mach 2, twice the speed of sound--a record that spurred his rival, U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager, to surpass it a month later; in a crash of Crossfield's single-engine Cessna in the mountains north of Atlanta. One of the post--World War II supersonic-jet aviators whom author Tom Wolfe said had "the right stuff," Crossfield dismissed the macho image of his field, saying that for most pilots he knew, the "main interest outside...
...BUZZ The Poseidon Adventure does not generate much Internet alarm over its desecration. The folks at Warner Bros. (like TIME, an arm of Time Warner), seem to be quietly confident. Their ace in the hole is director Wolfgang Petersen, who, having directed The Perfect Storm and Das Boot, knows from terror and tension on top of and beneath the waves. Poseidon could just be the preposterous, grip-the-armrest thriller people love in summer. Or, like the ship, it could be a sinker. -By Belinda Luscombe...
...cynical repartee in Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 comedy The Front Page zipped like the Super-Chief through a plot of political and journalistic malfeasance. When director Howard Hawks in 1940 changed ace reporter Hildy Johnson from man to woman, the story was also about another frantic combat: marriage. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the sparring partners in the fastest, nastiest farce Hollywood has ever made...