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...Porsche 944 was found in a parking lot at Austin's Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, apparently abandoned at the time of the disappearance. In May 1996, when Phil Donahue wanted Madalyn to attend his final broadcast, his executive producer hired a private detective to find her, to no avail. But what really fired the imagination of both the local and national press were the observations and surmises of David Travis. Travis, a Vietnam "foxhole atheist" who had lost his God while under enemy attack, had initially regarded the American Atheists' pre-disappearance monetary woes as an occasion for solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...fees; at one point Madalyn was so sure of losing that she told an employee not to be surprised if he came to work one morning and found the building padlocked. Appeals in the American Atheists' newsletter for member contributions became ever more plaintive and insistent, to no apparent avail. By 1993, drained of its operating funds, the organization dropped Madalyn's radio show, discontinued its magazine and stopped holding conventions. Says Kerns, who had left the group by then: "The game was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

Penn tried to switch from a man-to-man defense to a 2-3 zone in the middle of the first half in order to contain Harvard's interior game, but it was to no avail as Harvard's consistent outside shooting caused Penn's zone to break down. Penn was forced to switch to an unorthodox defensive strategy, combining a traditional zone with a trapping defense...

Author: By Benjamin O. Shuldiner, | Title: W.B-Ball Cruises Past Pennsylvania | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

Junior Henry Higdon came close to scoring the team's second goal when he skated laterally across the goalmouth and tried to punch the puck in, but to no avail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen Whitewash Union | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

...eight minutes left, and my premature exultation in victory overlooked one last step: opening the drawer. The drawer, one indestructible foot of rugged steel, was one in a long line of many diabolical products concocted in Harvard laboratories. For three minutes I attempted to open it, but to no avail. I pulled, tugged, and tried to sweet talk the drawer into opening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mission Impossible: Finding Library Books | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

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