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...He’s the prototype tight end,” said Siedlecki of his 6’7, 265 lb. former receiver. “He’s a big offensive line type blocker. And he had 72 catches...That’s what people saw in the all-star game, that he’s the best blocker of all of them...
...lb. Singles: First Heat: *G. H. Wadsworth G.B., time 3:49; J. W. P. Morgan '44; J. C. Billard '43; W. H. Drury...
...security problems when we don't even have a legitimate strategy. The homeland-security plan is another good example of how the U.S. government is too big, too slow and too unimaginative to do anything about terrorism except throw money at it. It's like watching a 900-lb. gorilla fight off a swarm of gnats with a sledgehammer. THOM WILDER Laguna Niguel, Calif...
DIED. JOSEPH ZIMMERMANN, 92, answering-machine inventor; in Brookfield, Wis. In 1948, when this U.S. Army Signal Corps veteran and enterprising engineer couldn't afford a secretary, he rigged up an 80-lb. contraption that used a lever to lift a phone receiver, a 78-r.p.m. record player to convey a personalized greeting, and a wire recorder to capture callers' 30-sec. messages. More than 6,000 of these "electronic secretaries" were in use by 1957, when he and a partner sold the patent to General Telephone Corp...
DIED. TIMOTHY THE TORTOISE, approximately 160, British navy mascot that in 1854 witnessed the bombing of Sevastopol during the Crimean War aboard the H.M.S. Queen and later served in the East Indies and China; at Powderham Castle, England. The 11-lb. veteran enjoyed a lengthy, if largely uneventful retirement in the Earl of Devon's garden, although an ill-fated mating attempt in 1926 revealed that he was, in fact, a she. Timothy will be buried with full honors on the castle grounds...