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...defenders toward her before centering to the cutting Carrillo. The talented freshman unleashed a drive off the outstretched hand of Bowdoin goalie Cathy Leitch, which would have rolled into the twines if it handed landed in a puddle in the crease. The inside halfs, freshmen Greeley and Ingra Larsen, used their superior trapping ability and their strong all-around play to turn sloppy loose-ball action into a concerted counterattack...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Booters Top Polar Bears, 2-1 | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...When Don Larsen threw his perfect game in the 1956 World Series, who pitched for the Dodgers and absorbed the 2-0 loss? Be specific...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Baseball Trivia Quiz: Final Examination | 5/20/1981 | See Source »

...years later Bjorn-Larsen was shocked when Munsingwear introduced the Stocking Locking Girdle, a tummy tamer strikingly similar to the one he had designed. Bjorn-Larsen protested to the company in vain for three years and finally, in 1972, took the case to court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girdle Grapple | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Using his laboratory expertise, Bjorn-Larsen developed a way to bind the chemical polyvinyl chloride to elastic girdle fabric and thereby make the inner cuffs of the garment sticky enough to hold up stockings. In 1965 Munsingwear, a major clothing manufacturer and maker of the familiar Penguin shirts, signed a contract with Bjorn-Larsen, promising him $1,000 a month as advances on royalties for exclusive use of his idea. But in late 1967 the payments stopped after totaling $14,000; Munsingwear told him that his idea had not panned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girdle Grapple | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...Bjorn-Larsen is now divorced from his wife, who inspired the revolutionary girdle. But under California's community property law she will receive half of the final settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girdle Grapple | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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