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...Alex Meyer rounded out the top three. Wollner and Lynch notched NCAA provisional marks in the event. In addition, the duo continued their domination in the 500 yard freestyle. This time, Lynch snuck in .02 seconds ahead of Wollner for a strong top two finish. Meyer and fellow freshman Mason Brunnick finished seventh and sixth, respectively, in the event. “Our distance swimmers swam exceptionally well,” Fiske said. “Sam and Eric got first and second in the two distance events—the mile and the 500-which was really...
While Simon was recovering from his bereavement, he met Actress Marsha Mason at an audition for The Good Doctor. The mutual attraction was immediate. He married her 2 weeks after they met, "And that was with one postponement," he adds. Simon encountered little resistance to the abrupt romance from Joan's mother Helen Bairn or daughters Ellen, then 16, and Nancy, then 10. Nancy explains: "We responded to Marsha right away. She was warm and funny, and we needed to become a family again...
Simon bared his rage and guilt at Joan's death and recounted his quick marriage to Mason in Chapter Two (1977). That put him back on stride, and every stage work since?from the musical They 're Playing Our Song (1979) to the trilogy?has clicked. Meanwhile, the new marriage thrived for about eight years, then ended in divorce in 1982. Although Simon wrote five films for her to star in (notably 1977's The Goodbye Girl), part of the problem was career conflict. There were other tensions, about which they are enigmatic. "Marsha was starting to find new ways...
THIS REGIONAL FINAL OF THE NCAA men's basketball tournament looked like a classic mismatch. The University of Connecticut featured four future NBA first-round draft picks. And George Mason--a suburban commuter school in Fairfax, Va.--looked like nothing much until its torrid shooting and scrappy defense gave it an 86-84 overtime upset of the Huskies, sending a school from a nonmajor conference to the Final Four for the first time in 27 years...
...city a hub from which cargo containers filled with paper, steel, tires and chemicals were dispatched to consumers around the country and across the ocean are now shuttered. "The opportunity to go to college is about all the students here have now, besides low-paying service jobs," says Mason Grahl, assistant principal at Roosevelt High, where traditionally far less than half the seniors go on to college. To change the mind-set, Grahl and his boss, head principal Mary McFarlane, are administering tough love by enforcing the new state graduation requirements now. This year's seniors are exempt...