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With apologies to Frank Baum, these are the three teams the Harvard men's tennis team will have to down to capture its fourth Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association (EITA) title in the last five years...
...When the auction began last Friday, some 150 farmers crowded around the steps of the courthouse in Gove, Kans. (pop. 140). Sheriff Dean Baum began reading off the legal orders under which the personal property of C. David Jensen and his wife Virginia, both 54, would be sold to satisfy an unpaid debt of $180,000 to the Citizens State Bank of nearby Grainfield. Someone threw snowballs at one of the sheriff's deputies, and someone else shouted at the assembled officials: "Why don't you go out and steal them?" That was a reference to the two cars, three...
...their more personal items were read off, Virginia Jensen wept. There was a loveseat, a silver oil lamp, brass candlesticks, a woman's rocker. When Baum cited "an oak bedroom set," she lost control. "These are family heirlooms," she shouted. "They've been in our family for 150 years. They're not for sale." But they were. Under the rules of the auction, the articles could not be split up; all of them would go to the highest single bidder. A lawyer for the Citizens State Bank bid $89,000 for everything, the only bid offered. (The rule was designed...
...again, and so will the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. But OZ, which is now shooting in London, will be neither a musical nor a faithful retelling of the 1939 classic that starred Judy Garland. Based upon three of the books by Oz Creator L. Frank Baum, the $20 million "live-action adventure fantasy" promises to be something of a Star Woz, with veterans of that more modern epic creating special effects and producing the movie for Walt Disney. ("Toto, I really don't think we're in Kansas any more.") Dorothy will be played...
...Marine Corps sergeant who spent 31 months in Viet Nam, started with the A's: "David Aasen, Jose Abara, Richard Abbate . . ." The spare eulogy took the better part of three days, 1,000 names an hour, with only a few hours respite each morning. One reader was Caroline Baum, 26, a Quaker from Syracuse, N.Y. Said she after her 25 minutes at the altar: "Whether you believe in war or not, you should honor the dead who fought...