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...week progressed, attention shifted back to swimming's newest stars: three American teenagers. "I was so excited, I was, like 'Wow!'" declared Baltimorean Beth Botsford, 15, after striking gold in the 100-m backstroke. Brooke Bennett, a 16-year-old Floridian, won the 800-m freestyle, leaving a tearful Janet Evans, the queen of long-distance swimming, in sixth place. The youngest U.S. medalist, California's Amanda Beard, 14--who had her parents bring her teddy bear to the stands--captured two individual silvers in the breaststroke and a relay gold...
...critically acclaimed memoir My Father's Guru and recently taught media ethics at the University of Michigan, where he has been living in the home of his fiance, controversial feminist law professor Catharine MacKinnon. Malcolm continues under contract to the New Yorker, where her editor was her husband Gardner Botsford. She conceded on the witness stand that her techniques have "freaked out" colleagues -- not to mention most other practitioners of her craft...
...years. With serene irrelevance, it has been variously described in the Goings on About Town department of The New Yorker as: "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!"; "Close cover before striking match"; "Rock of ages, cleft for me"; and "Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John." Associate Editor Gardner Botsford explains that he gets bored writing the same straight capsule reviews of long-run shows. So did Robert Benchley when he handled theater listings for the original Life magazine in the '20s. Of Abie's Irish Rose, which ran 2,327 performances, Benchley once babbled: "One,two,three...
...pass, which was almost intercepted by Harvard captain Ted Metropoulos but merely fell incomplete. Thus reprieved, Benham went to the air again, heaving a pass from his own 31 to the Harvard 33. Since everyone in New York's Baker Field was expecting a pass, Crimson safety man Matt Botsford was in position to deflect the ball. Deflect it he did--right into the hands of Spraker on the 25--and the Lion halfback covered the last 25 yards without a hand laid...
Then, at 6:37 of the third quarter, the varsity went ahead, to 21-7, on Botsford's second touchdown. But Brown retaliated four minutes later to close the gap, and, with less than two minutes to play, the Bruins tied it up. It was a great day for Botsford, who gained about 80 yards rushing and completed seven of eleven passes...