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...found some unexpected depth to place in 13 out of 17 events. Freshman Cliff Sheehan came out of now here to take the 1000, crossing the finish line three one-hundredths of a second before B.U.'s Paul Fischer Sheehan had been in fifth place going into the last lap and was ten yards behind Fischer going into the stretch, but as he approached the stretch, Sheehan poured...
Senior Paula Newnham ran the most dramatic race of the afternoon in the grueling 3000 Meter event. Competing despite a case of the flu, the ascetic Britisher passed BU's Kathy Boyle in the middle of the fifteen-lap race, but started her final lap kick too early and then stopped in confusion with one lap...
Less dramatic but just as noteworthy was sophomore Grace de Fries' effort in the 800 Meter Run. In what could be called a "textbook" race, de Fries jackrabbited to an early lead, was joined by freshman teammate Amy Simeon with one lap to go, and then shot out again to finish the clear winner with a new meet record of 2:15.4. Simeon finished third...
...locker room where last year at this time the Harvard hockey team had grins 10 goals wide, where only one week form now a glowing Tommy Murray would quietly sit, a Pot on his lap and his teammates yelling and laughing around him, the Harvard hockey team sat silent...
Rarely is a practicing journalist acquainted with all of the principals in a celebrated murder case, including the deceased. This unlikely coincidence fell into the lap of Author Anthony Haden-Guest in August 1978, when New York police arrested Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson, a successful horse trainer and all-purpose entrepreneur, for the murder of a man named Jack Tupper. The writer knew and had once interviewed Jacobson and his girlfriend and business partner, Melanie Cain, a fashion model. The victim had often been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side...