Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wheelchair division, Kirk Brinkman triumphed with an unofficial record time of 1:55.00. Brinkman, a double amputee from Oren, Utah, overtook George Murray three miles from the end of the 26-mile race when Murray's left wheel broke off his chair...
Ullman, who teaches English at Tufts and writes jazz criticism for The New Republic, has padded his book with stock appreciations of the recent dead-- Joe Venuti, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk. These great artists certainly merit our attention, but Ullman's second-hand tributes east little light on the jazz life. The real meat of Jazz Lives lies in the words of its less celebrated subjects. Many readers will find most of the names unfamiliar, but none of them are second-rate, and they speak with authority and often with charm. Only remember that every musician in this book...
DETROIT TIGERS: Sparky Anderson is building a team up there in Michigan, but they're probably still a few years away. Young hitters Steve Kemp, Jason Thompson and rookie Kirk Gibson and pitchers Jack Morris and Dale Schatzeder form the nucleus of what may be the team...
...begins. Ministers, priests and rabbis will be preaching it from their pulpits on "Census Sabbath" and "Census Sunday." Put to music, the slogan will blare from radios in Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, Greek, Vietnamese and 26 other languages in addition to English. On TV, the census will be plugged by Kirk Douglas, José Ferrer, Elvin Hayes, Roger Staubach, Mickey Mouse and a cast of thousands. Just in case someone might manage to remain blissfully ignorant of the effort to get every American head counted, census messages will accompany tens of millions of Social Security checks and telephone and utility bills...
...Menichella, Pat Jakobsen and Rick Kirk also recorded season or lifetime bests. Menichella's 200-yd butterfly (1:54.4) and medly fly relay split (51.0) are close to what he did at Easterns last year. Jakobsen's 2:11.76 in the 200 breaststroke and Kirk's relay swim (47.3) anchoring the victorious medly were career best times...