Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creation of Citicorp Center might have been scripted by Ross Macdonald in collaboration with Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author). It all began one Saturday afternoon in September 1968. Two ambitious real estate brokers, Donald Schnabel, then 36, and Charles McArthur, then 45, had heard that Saint Peter's might be for sale. As Schnabel and McArthur cased the other buildings in the block, they became possessed of what is almost an impossible dream in modern Manhattan: "assembling" all the parcels so that one mighty building could rise on the site...
...Crimson's fourth line presently consists of junior Randy Millen on right wing, freshman Bill Evans on left wing and Bob MacDonald at center. Millen played as a regular last season, scoring one goal and five assists. Evans is from the Toronto area. MacDonald was the leading scorer in Massachusetts in 1975-1976 when he was a senior at Winthrop High School. Last year MacDonald played for coach David Hagerman while taking a post-graduate year at Deerfield Academy...
Libby Pierpont, also playing singles, bested Sue Rand of the University of Rhode Island 6-3, 6-3, and Grace MacDonald of Bates, 2 and love, before falling in the third round. Battling on day for the first time all year, Pierpont lost to a woman she had previously defeated in the Greater Boston Championships, Tufts' Wendy Shahon...
Crosby patterned his rhythmical golf swing after that of his boyhood hero, MacDonald Smith, MacDonald was the youngest of a passel of five golfing brothers who emigrated en famille from Carnoustie, Scotland...
Despite an elegant and truly rhapsodical swing, MacDonald never won a major championship. He was "always the bridesmaid but never the bride." In the 1925 British Open he needed a final round of 78 to win, and staggered to an 82. In 1936 H.B. Martin wrote: "There is no more flagrant case of miscarried justice than in the story of MacDonald Smith, youngest of the Smith clan and the most brilliant...Dame Fate took a particular delight in mocking his genius, encouraging him with lesser prizes but always refusing his demand for stellar honors...