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...swimming team also picked its captains recently, tabbing all-round star Malcolm Cooper and backstroke specialist Eric Seder, both juniors, as co-captains for the '78-'79 aqua squad...
...much of his life. He preferred to lead a flock of people deeply attached to him. His second wife was one of the Walter sisters, Jean, whom he married less than two years before his death at 80. She was the model for Delia Street. Sam Hicks, an all-round outdoorsman, also devoted his life to Gardner; he was transmogrified into Paul Drake. This nucleus was joined by a large assortment of pretty women and hunting pals. They sometimes camped out in the desert, especially in Gardner's beloved Baja California...
...year, Greis, who has seen limited playing time this season, made it look even easier, playing the low-post position to perfection. She got help from forward Wendy Carle who poured in 20 points and grabbed a team-high 12 rebounds. Carle's continuously aggressive play and a strong all-round contribution from floor general Caryn Curry worked to wear down a persistent Quaker team that hung tough through most of the first half...
...separation was insupportable; many Sundays the boys bicycled halfway to share food that Tony had scrounged. The Dickensian experience did little to erode David's spirit. When his father entered him in Sherborne boys' school, scene of the musical film Goodbye, Mr. Chips, David conformed to the image of all-round student for a couple of years, then refused to return. "I went to my housemaster," says Cornwell, "and he said, 'Well, this is the moment of choice; you choose between God and the Devil...
Died. Peter Lisagor, 61, Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News and the best all-round newspaper correspondent in the nation's capital; of cancer; in Arlington, Va. Born poor in West Virginia, Lisagor played semipro baseball to pay his way through the University of Michigan. He joined the Daily News in 1939 and was assigned to Washington eleven years later. His stories, columns, speeches and TV appearances on NBC's Meet the Press, Public Broadcasting's Washington Week in Review and other programs were marked by incisive perception, dry wit and uncommon warmth and humanity...