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Patterson took fourth yesterday with a performance of 50.65 meters, proving his previous week’s effort was no fluke. Greatly limited by injuries throughout his career, Patterson went out on a high note...
...We’ve been down awhile,” Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni said after the Cornell win. “I never envisioned that this would happen, but the way we played over the past couple of weeks this was no fluke. This was our best game...
Wanting to ensure that the easy success of my first caper was not a fluke, I decided to try and steal something else. This time, with a gun. Unfortunately, there is some sort of waiting period for purchasing a handgun. After explaining the pressures of my column deadline to Winthrop Vanderbilt, the proprietor of the Cambridge Shooting Shoppe, he suggested that I consider using illegal fireworks instead of guns. It wasn’t ideal, but I bought $700 worth...
DIED. HAROLD RUSSELL, 88, actor-by-fluke and World War II vet who lost both hands during the war and later won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives; in Needham, Mass. Russell, who had never acted before director William Wyler noticed him in an educational film for disabled soldiers, spent most of the rest of his life working for veterans' organizations...
Ironically, that injury may have been a turning point, taking pressure off and giving her room to perform to potential. At the Worlds in Budapest four weeks later, Friesinger won the all-around title. She proved it wasn't a fluke by setting a 1500-m world record at Calgary the following month, before capturing the world title at the same distance. Her explanation for success is simple: "I'm healthy ... so I've been training harder. I have also had more discipline - and not going out too much...