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...Badger" Brown-Serman will be favored to win the feature event of the afternoon, the senior singles, which is the only race to be rowed over the mile course. In last year's regatta Brown-Serman placed third to George Hurd, who is not entered this year, and Phil Wilson, now in Med School. Later in an informal Summer School regatta, he defeated Wilson easily over a much shorter course...
...PHIL MICKELSON, 33, the Masters tournament, his first victory in any of golf's four "majors," after 47 tries; in Augusta, Georgia. One year after his worst season, he acquired a new swing and a slimmer physique and, with a dramatic birdie putt on the 18th hole, won the coveted green blazer...
...DIED. PHIL SOKOLOF, 82, who spent millions of his own money to wage war against fat; in Omaha, Nebraska. After a heart attack at age 46, the self-made millionaire, who suffered from high cholesterol, began buying full-page newspaper ads with such headlines as: "McDonald's, Your Hamburgers Have Too Much Fat!" His work led some fast-food chains, including McDonald's, to begin frying potatoes in vegetable oil rather than beef tallow and other companies to stop using highly saturated tropical oils in packaged snacks. He also was credited with helping bring about mandatory nutritional labels on food...
Later in the afternoon, Chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party Phil Johnston also discussed the importance of young people, whom he termed “troops for progressive campaigns...
Then something funny happened on Sunday. The Sox game was on, yet the final round of The Masters simultaneously was taking place—wherein my favorite golfer, Phil Mickelson—was trying to win his first Major ever after a career of disappointments and top-three finishes without a win. As I flipped back and forth at every lull in the action of the Sox game or every time a golfer besides Mickelson was being shown, both Mickelson and the Sox faltered early as both Ernie Els and the Blue Jays took early leads...