Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Winecker Jr. Holiday...
Born. To Peggy Fleming, 28, world figure-skating champion in 1966 at age 17, and Dr. Gregory Jenkins, 31: their first child, a son; in Stanford, Calif. Name: Andrew Thomas. Fleming, who brought the U.S. its only gold medal from the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics, continued pirouetting for the Holiday on Ice troupe until last September...
...original Horatio Alger story." The "I" is Diana Ross, who will tell some of that story in a March 6 NBC special featuring songs, dances and other acts. Paying tribute to black entertainers who paved the way for her, she dresses up as Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith. Ross, 32, identifies especially with Holiday, whose life she portrayed in her first movie, Lady Sings the Blues. Says Diana: "Billie needed a lot of love. She had so much luxury and loveliness around her, but was still so very much alone in a crowd...
...John's Rutgers, and Princeton all went to the post-season NCAA tournament last season and remain formidable quintets. Manhattan advanced to the finals of this year's Holiday Festival. Seton Hall was edged by Holy Cross in the Madison Square Garden Classic last week, but boasts the nation's fifth leading scorer in Glenn Mosley. Even St. Francis, a small school without a winning team in ten years, won a Christmas tournament at Bentley...
...kids are sticking close to their neighborhood playgrounds and community programs where they learned the fundamentals, and it shows in the current caliber of metropolitan teams. Brooklynite Ricky Free is Columbia's leading scorer while unsung Steve Grant and high-scoring Ricky Marsh led Manhattan over Penn in the Holiday Festival. Glenn Vickers is playing for Iona; Reggie Carter and Bernard Rencher have transferred to St. John's, while Bernard Tomlin and John Irving have switched over to Hofstra...