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...advent of Fannie Merritt Farmer was an historic watershed. Before her, women wrote of cooking with love; she made it a laboratory exercise. She embodied, if that is not too earthy a word, all the major ills of twentieth-century culinary teaching. She was the maiden aunt of home economics...
...Rodgers of Melrose, who astonished onlookers in 1975 by winning the Marathon in a record 2:09.55, will join the chase as well as last year's winner, Jack Fultz, a 28-year-old Georgetown graduate from Franklin Park, Pa. (Fultz's time: 2:20.19). 1976 female champ Kim Merritt (2:47.10), who was hospitalized for exhaustion after her victory, will attempt to repeat her win without any of last year's side effects. And 1974 victor Neil Cusak will lead a group of Irish runners (Mick Molloy, Danny McDavid, Jim McNamara) in this star-studded field. Others to watch...
...miles from Detroit, and fans were already saying, "Let the Pontiac Pussycats go." The Wheels rolled into town with ambitious plans; they drafted such top college stars as Tennessee State Defensive End Ed ("Too Tall") Jones (the N.F.L.'s first draft choice) and set out to hire John Merritt away from Tennessee State as head coach...
Then the Dallas Cowboys outbid Detroit for Jones, and Merritt could not come to terms with the team's owners, an unwieldy ensemble of 32 citizens, including Motown Singing Star Marvin Gaye. Instead of Merritt, the Wheels hired Dan Boisture, coach at Eastern Michigan University. The Wheels also brought in a defensive coordinator, David Brazil, who, one Wheel player reported, had coached his high school team to a 0-7 record. Worse still, the team could not use Tiger Stadium because the Lions held exclusive football rights there; the Wheels had to play in Ypsilanti, 35 miles from downtown...
...Merritt Island...