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...first wife, Jean Hazlewood, when they were students at Lake Forest. They married in 1942 and became one of Hollywood's most quietly renowned couples. Hazlewood wrote the screenplay for Widmark's one film as a director, The Secret Ways in 1961. Their daughter Anne married Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax in 1969. Richard and Anne were married for 55 years until Hazlewood's death, after a long siege of Alzheimer's disease, in 1997. He told New York Times reporter Aljean Harmetz that he had never been unfaithful or even flirted with other women because, he said, "I happen...
...Hoosiers to an undefeated '76 season--a feat not since repeated--and three NCAA championships. Knight, 67, who led the U.S. to Olympic gold in 1984, emphasized teamwork, never broke NCAA rules and ran clean programs with high graduation rates. In a sudden midseason move, the combative Hall of Famer resigned on Feb. 4 as head coach at Texas Tech, his home since being fired by Indiana. Knight, who is succeeded by his son Pat, told colleagues he was tired. But he was also following a tradition of writing his own script. Last year, when he broke the record...
...inducted into the Massachusetts Italian American Hall of Fame. He coached part of the game in a tuxedo…One of the linesmen for the Harvard-Cornell game was named Mark Messier. Although the official wasn’t the Hockey Hall of Famer who won six Stanley Cups in a 25-year NHL career, he kept the game running smoothly on the ice...Harvard outshot the Big Red, 35-23. —Staff writer Courtney D. Skinner can be reached at cskinner@fas.harvard.edu...
...Vegas had Liberace. Nashville, for more than a half-century, had Hall of Famer Porter Wagoner, the king of country glam. The Grand Ole Opry legend's blond pompadour and rhinestone suits made him a popular hitmaker (Green Green Grass of Home, Skid Row Joe) and influential ambassador, but he was best known for mentoring and performing with Dolly Parton, whom he launched on TV's syndicated 1960-79 Porter Wagoner Show. Last summer Wagoner made a national comeback with the critically acclaimed indie-album Wagonmaster. To promote it, he opened for rock's White Stripes, firing...
...very big club, Bro. It can't be easy being a runt in a litter that includes a President. But it couldn't have been easy being Billy Ripken either, an unexceptional major league infielder craning his neck for notice while the press swarmed around Hall of Famer and elder brother Cal. It can't be easy being Eli Manning, struggling to prove himself as an NFL quarterback while big brother Peyton polishes a Super Bowl trophy and his superman stats. And you may have never heard of Tisa Farrow, an actress of no particular note beyond her work...