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...knobby 16-year-old named Jeffrey Olsen, from Austin, won four individual races and anchored a winning relay team, and well before he was through he was a TV fixture, peering at the world through water-splotched glasses and grinning a big, happy grin. Molly Magill, 14, became another instant darling, winning the 1,500 freestyle and sharing in the 800 freestyle relay victory as her coach lumbered along the poolside yelling encouragement...
...sweet it was earlier this month when Elliott Dixon scratched off the concealing film on one of California's new instant-winner lottery tickets and discovered he had won $1,000. How bitter he was when he learned that none of the money would be his to enjoy. All of his winnings were confiscated by the state to go toward payment of a $2,100 child-support debt. Moaned the winner-loser: "I don't mind seeing my debts reduced, but I would have rather made the decision myself...
Imagining White as the Most Valuable Player was an enjoyment for a moment, but no more pleasant than the next instant listening to the Cardinal understudy turned star Tito Landrum modestly describing the latest of his outlandish heroics. Landrum's opposite-field homer in Game 4 (3-0) left St. Louis just one victory from its tenth championship in 14 World Series. A minor league drifter who once was essentially traded for himself, Landrum took over during the National League play-offs for Rookie Left Fielder Vince Coleman, stealer of 110 bases, who was gobbled up by an accidentally loosed...
...walk across the street with less than a mil. Juries are crazy." A caller from Spokane wants advice on borrowing $2,000. Williams grabs a nearby booklet and tots up the interest on a three-year vs. a four-year loan. For a Seattle man, Williams becomes an instant expert on zoning codes; for a listener in Rochester, he's an authority on inheritance taxes. And for a high school student who is uncertain about college, he is a sympathetic uncle: "Kinda overwhelming?" "Yeah." "Let me tell ya somethin'. You're just getting started on a great adventure...
...sheer volume of words, Mike Greenly is far ahead of the pack. He started his career as a computer journalist by sending in breathless behind-the-scenes reports from major trade gatherings like Comdex and the Consumer Electronics Show. Spurred by instant feedback from other networkers, he broadened the scope of his reporting to cover the national political conventions last year and the presidential Inauguration last January, where he posed as a correspondent for a fictitious news service. In May he started a series of interviews with people touched by the AIDS panic, taking his readers into hospitals, bathhouses...