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...Priddy Trophy at Dartmouth, first-year standouts Clay Bischoff and Lema Kikuchi took first place in a field of nine teams, beating out Tufts, Yale, MIT, and the home team among others...

Author: By Stephanie Murg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sailing Wins Priddy Trophy | 4/25/2000 | See Source »

Harvard's triumphant trio of boats were manned by the skipper/crew combinations of senior Jason Carroll and freshman Natalie MacLean, freshman Clay Bischoff and Lema Kikuchi, and junior Jack Donahue with sophomore Mara Stith. Junior Matt Ocwieja also crewed for Carroll...

Author: By Stephanie Murg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sailing Blows Away Competition | 4/11/2000 | See Source »

...been claimed that on or about Dec. 27 the Salem anchored offshore at Durban, South Africa's largest port. By then the crew had painted over the name Salem on the hull, making it read Lema-a simple three-letter switch. The vessel then slipped out of Durban around Jan. 2, Lloyd's believes, with its tanks full of sea water to simulate a full load. Two weeks later, when the ship was almost back on its original schedule, it sank off the Senegalese coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH SEAS: Sinking a Supertanker | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Golf has always had its share of distinctive, larger-than-life personalities: Terrible Tommy Bolt, the late Champagne Tony Lema, Daiquiri Doug Sanders. None of them, though, ever had Trevino's mix of fun and finesse?or his earthy, egalitarian appeal. A country-club Cantinflas, he will stick his tongue out at an errant shot, coax in a putt with a burlesque-queen bump or break into an impromptu toreador waltz with an attacking bee. Lee's Fleas delight in his wisecracks (Flea: "Nice shot!" Lee: "What did you expect from the U.S. Open champion?ground balls?"). They love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lee Trevino: Cantinflas of the Country Clubs | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...confirmed, color-coordinated kook. Twice married and twice divorced, he is wildly superstitious, mildy neurotic, engagingly extraverted and outrageously hedonistic. Women? "I'm afraid of dying," he sighs. "That's why I love so hard." Liquor? "I've spilled more," says Sanders, "than Tony Lema swallowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: King of the Kelloggs | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

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