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...history was unfolding. Five hundred candidates turned up for open auditions to become the team's new stadium announcer, but none of the dozens of experienced sports broadcasters vying for the plum platform got the nod. Instead the Giants will start a rookie -- a legal secretary from Walnut Creek, California. On opening day, April 5, Sherry Davis will become the first woman ever to be a full-time pro baseball announcer. The pay: $75 a game. Davis, a longtime baseball buff with training in TV-commercial voice-overs, has a smooth delivery the front office hopes fans will prefer...
...closet, it's getting harder and harder to conceal its prodigious effects on the huge segment of the population born after World War II. Says Brian O'Brien, 30, who used a $20,000 cash infusion from his parents to buy a $235,000 three-bedroom house in Walnut Creek, California, last year: "It's kind of like the unspoken reality of our generation. Everybody gets by and buys houses, and nobody asks where the money came from...
Gallant, a sophomore netminder out of Stony Creek, Ont., has amassed a 5.30 goals-against-average and has not won a game all season...
...Paul Goldhaber, professor of periodontology and former Dental School dean; Dr. Harold Loe, Director of the National Institute of Dental Research in Bethesda, Maryland; Professor Per Ingvar Branemark, the Institute for Applied Biotechnology in Goteberg, Sweden; and Dr. Robert D. Sparks, president emeritus, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan...
...though, was to live in Washington, D.C., in1939-1940 when I was just about nine or ten yearsold. I had, believe it or not, quite an experiencefor a kid. I was within walking distance of thenational zoo and a short bus ride from the UnitedStates national museum near Rock Creek park. Atthat time it was safe, so I had the combination inthis sensitive period of my boyhood of having thewonders of the zoo to visit at my leisure and theSmithsonian as well as a park where I could go andcatch butterflies. It makes me wonder why morekids don't become...