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...Clayton, a casualty of the injury jinx that hit Harvard during March, made his Spring debut in the half-mile, and outkicked his Dartmouth opponent on the final turn to win in 1:57.2. Freshman John Maggio, competing in the varsity 440 intermediate hurdles, overcame a three-yard deficit--the result of a misplaced starting block--and won the race...
...Harvard had overextended itself. Princeton's Jeff Weicksel led a Tiger 880 sweep in the unbelievable slow time of 1:57.6. Tigers Pierre Gourdon and Steve Wilk edged out Reid in the 220. And even though Harvard's John Maggio and Steve Dart placed 2-3 in the 400 hurdles, which neither had ever run before for the varsity, it wasn't enough...
...part, the Army contends that Specialist Smith has only been following in the footsteps of other professional athletes-Joe Louis, Joe Di-Maggio, Sandy Koufax and Roosevelt Grier, for example-who continued to concentrate on their specialty while in uniform. Anyway, says Major Willis Johnson, chief of the Army's sports office, "Stan Smith is unique. He isn't a soldier in the original concept of soldiering. Smith is a national asset...
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...