Word: maggio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Northeastern's biggest win came in the 600 where Paul Horrigan set a meet record of 1:11.0. In a surprisingly strong performance, Harvard's freshman John Maggio took fifth place...
Then in the 1950s, his vocal cords abruptly hemorrhaged. MCA, the giant talent agency, dropped him. Eventually he sold himself (though some say the mob helped) to Columbia for an insulting $8,000 to play Maggio in From Here to Eternity. That won him the Oscar for best supporting actor of 1953. The top again: $4,000,000 to $7,000,000 a year. By then he had left his first wife, the former Nancy Barbato, and had chased, married and been divorced by Ava Gardner. "I like broads," he said, and not a few photographers got punched out trying...
...Goldberg constructed chains of causality that could be as illogical as life itself. A 1950 cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes (C) overcome Republican Senator (D), who falls back, causing spoon (E) to toss surplus potato (F)−Joe Di-Maggio (G) swings, causing revolving mechanism (H) to set off leftover 4th of July rocket (I) which hits dice box (J), causing it to throw a natural−District Attorney (K) runs to investigate gambling, causing rope (L) to pull shirt (M) off taxpayer's back...