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Dave Ignacio, who made a dive for the ball in centerfield, went over the fence with...
...intelligence. And unbeatable, unbeatable cool. And a celluloid background that started unreeling 30 years ago. A graduate of the starlet's academy, Hollywood High, she won her first lead in the war film Dive Bomber, but failed to land either Co-Star Errol Flynn or Fred MacMurray; both loved flying more. Late Show buffs can catch her around, but not quite in, movie musicals. She was Mrs. Cole Porter in Night and Day and George Gershwin's gal in Rhapsody in Blue. Customarily, though, she was Warner Brothers' snow queen, a frosty beauty about as seducible as the Statue...
Harvard's hopes for its first Ivy League lacrosse title since 1961 took a dive Saturday as the Crimson suffered a 9-3 rout at the hands of defending champion Cornell in Ithaca...
...pilots pushed the Cobra into a steep dive. Before they pulled up-at about 500 ft.-Walters had fired two pairs of 2.75-in. rockets into enemy positions. Diving again, Hayden let go with his 7.62-mm. minigun against a pocket of North Vietnamese caught in the open near the perimeter wire. Terrified, the Communists scattered back into the tree line, leaving 15 bodies on the ground. There was another strike, then another and another, until Hayden had expended his entire 2,500-lb. load of ordnance. By noontime, he was back at Khe Sanh to refuel, rearm and wait...
...able to get into the white ring. Joe Gans, whose reputation earned him the nickname "The Old Master," was the most outstanding of that group. However, even as lightweight champion, he could get bouts only by accepting the short end of the purse or by agreeing to take a dive or both. His last major bout was in 1906 in Goldfield, Nevada, against a young white hope named "Battlin'" Nelson. The bout was the first promotion of the notorious Tex Rickard, at that time a local saloon owner. Rickard, who was to become the most successful promoter...