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Gildea, who's been swimming three workouts a day recently in an attempt to overcome a series of painful knee operations, is now approaching the peak condition that made her last year's Ivy mile champ. "It feels great to be coming back," she said happily after the race...
...most noteworthy swims of the day came from sophomore Maureen Gildea in the 1000-yard freestyle. Gildea--who was last year's Ivy League mile champ--has been swimming three-a-day workouts recently in an effort to overcome a frustrating knee condition that has sidelined her a great deal this season, and has consequently caused her times to rise drastically...
...sense, Gjon Mili is the Marcel Du-champ of photography. As a trained engineer he pioneered the use of electronic flash and multiple-exposure photographs, then, in 1938, started doing stories for LIFE magazine. There he revolutionized his art and influenced two generations of journalists. "Time could truly be made to stand still," he recalls in this extraordinary book of prose and picture recollections. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." The book includes a fair number of famous Mili pictures doing just that: his own version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon...
...hours to talk him out of jumping, but to no avail. In short, this looked like a job for Muhammad Ali. At least that is what one of Ali's p.r. men thought when he happened on the scene. Moments after being summoned, the former heavyweight champ arrived in his personal emergency vehicle-a two-tone brown Rolls-Royce-lights flashing. He ascended to a window near the desperate 21-year-old, a black Navy veteran, and began to rap: "You're my brother ' said the Greatest, "I love you, and I couldn...
Defending Ivy champ Columbia took its turn at the Crimson on Saturday afternoon at Boston College's Roberts Arena in the opening round of a quadrangular match and emerged with...