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...Erik B. Patton '02 said he got sick after attending a swim team party and going to The Grille. Two friends found him drunk, stumbling around the Yard, and called HUPD to have him transported...
After getting a 26-yard field goal from junior kicker Jonathan Patton and a three-yard touchdown run by Linden, Harvard appeared to have an impregnable lead when senior safety Derek Yankoff returned an interception 64 yards for a touchdown...
DIED. GEORGE C. SCOTT, 71, raspy-voiced, imperious actor whose roles in The Hustler and Dr. Strangelove earned him Academy Award nominations, and who won and then declined an Oscar for Patton; of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm; at his home in Los Angeles. He won three Emmys and was nominated for four Tonys, but Scott's personal life was messy. He was married five times, twice to actress Colleen Dewhurst. He attributed his heavy drinking habits to a four-year stint digging graves for the Marines in Arlington National Cemetery. "I became an actor," he once said, "to escape...
Beyond clairvoyance, Freshley brings extraordinary discipline to his training, a practice developed in his youth. Drafted into the Army after college, he became one of an elite 15 on the all-military pentathlon team. (General George Patton was once a member.) Training was 10 to 12 grueling hours a day of riding, swimming, fencing, shooting and running. Even his current regimen would stagger most people: four or five swims a week, sometimes including a 1-mile ocean race, two 20-mile bike rides, two weight-lifting sessions, as much as 3 hrs. of yoga and Pilates...
...product line may have factored into the selection of former Apple executive Rebecca Patton, 43, as CEO. But the crucial issue was to hire an experienced manager to run the place. "The control thing was totally unimportant to us. Several people have told us that's a female characteristic," Herrin says, as if she wouldn't know one way or the other...