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Bill Johnson was first in the hammer throw, leading three Crimson hurlers in the next three slots. Chambers put the icing on the cake in the long and triple jumps and Kovach lit the candles with his third place finish in the discus...
...relish and a neat change of pace. Uniformly responsive, the opening-night house came to a roar on at least three numbers. Millicent Martin brings the granitic grit of survival to I'm Still Here (Follies); Julie N. McKenzie belts out Another Hundred People (Company) like a trip hammer; and David Kernan joins the two women for a satirical swinger done in Andrews Sisters' fashion, You Could Drive a Person Crazy (Company). The entire evening swings and swings and swings. T.E.K...
Geoff Styles then captured the pole vault, and Harvard swept the hammer throw...
...Jimmy Carter to TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud during Cloud's memorable and exclusive day at the White House, in which he talked to and observed the President from dawn into the late evening (TIME, April 18). Carter was talking about a session with Cabinet members and advisers to hammer out the energy plan that the President will present to the nation this week. Even before its release, the plan generated violent debate. As preparation for that debate and to get the ideas of business, labor, political and environmental leaders, Time Inc. convened a special energy conference in Williamsburg...
...inscribed by the author, went for $3,200. Dozens of other major and minor writers of the 1920s were similarly appreciated. William Faulkner's The Marble Faun-well preserved and signed -brought $6,250; William Carlos Williams' scarce first book Poems went for $16,000. When the hammer sounded for Ezra Pound's privately printed A Lume Spento, the winning bid was $18,000-the most ever paid for a modern American first edition...