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That face belongs to freshman Olympian Bobby Hackett. Hackett, silver medalist in the 1500 meters at Montreal, gold medalist at the 1975 Pan American games, and two-time A.A.U National champion, is the kind of blue-chip athlete and personality who can transform a fairly strong program into a great one, who can attract name swimmers from all over the country, who can catapult a team into the national rankings--in short, the kind of athlete who comes to Harvard very rarely...
...Terriers, led by former British Olympian Glenn Cohen, looked very strong in the early running events as they took first places in the mile, the quarter-mile, the 60-yd. hurdles, the 60-yd. dash, and the 600--where Cohen, who is only a freshman, ran a blistering 1:12.0. But the Crimson managed to maintain a slim lead in the early going by sweeping the field events, their perennial strenth...
...Olympian Dick Lamby ended the night's scoring with 42 seconds to play. With eight seconds to go on a B.U. power play, Lamby took the puck from his own blue line, wormed by three defenders, and let go a wrist shot that deflected of Milner's leg pad and into the right corner of the cage...
...perennial sidekick Bob Hope were barnstorming the country on golf exhibitions with professionals such as Byron Nelson and Harold McSpaden. "Lord" Byron, the leading money-winner of 1945, and "Childe" Harold were then known as "The Gold Dust Twins." Crosby teamed up with woman professional and former Olympian Mildred "Babe" Didrickson in a series of War Bond exhibitions on the Coast. By the end of the war, over $600 million worth of War Bonds had been sold through golf tournaments and exhibitions...
What drawing is to other artists, tearing is to Motherwell. Nowhere is his balance between accident and elegance more apparent than in his big collages, with their torn and pasted edges of stiff paper, so casually exact in placement. Works like NRF Collage No. 4, 1973, have an almost Olympian detachment about them. The sense of classical well-being furnished by Motherwell's recent work reminds one of an English epicure's definition of heaven: "Eating fresh foie gras to the sound of trumpets...