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Nobody stood over little Gelsey with a knife and forced her to have aspirations. All accounts agree, including hers: she did it to herself. John Clifford, director of the Los Angeles Ballet company, knew the young Gelsey and was not entirely charmed. "Gelsey was born mad at the world," he says. "She was born ready to kill." Former Dancer Meg Gordon, one of Gelsey's few close friends, remembers the same thing in softer focus: "Even when we were little, her mother used to joke about it, saying, 'You must have come out of your mother's womb marching...
...adagio like your sister? Go home with your sister and have her teach you how to do an adagio." Johnna was told to learn jumping from Gelsey. The result was predictable. Says Johnna: "We really, at one point in our lives, really hated each other." John Clifford recalls seeing both sisters watching from the wings and weeping as the other performed well...
...Clifford and Steve Baloff both went the distance for Harvard, firing a pair of four-hitters, while Mike Stenhouse crashed home runs in each end of the doubleheader, the latter a game winner...
Meanwhile, Clifford sailed along as he scattered singles in the second and third, but got into trouble in the fourth. After a walk, designated hitter Rod Shepard ripped a liner to leftfield...
...Clifford got a break when Shepard's shot sneaked through a hole in the fence, making it a ground-rule double and preventing the run from scoring. Second baseman Halas then saved at least one run with a diving stab of a line drive for the rally-killing third...