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...earned what last year? Jimmy Carter, President of the U.S.: $200,000. Nolan Ryan, pitcher for the Houston Astros: $1 million. Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO: $98,000. Barbara Walters, TV interviewer: $1 million. Judith Krantz, author of Princess Daisy: about $2.2 million. Frank Rosenfelt, president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the nation's best paid businessman: $5.1 million...
Spring training 1980. Absent: living legends Larry Brown and Mike Stenhouse (lost to the pros), last year's star pitcher Tim Clifford and assorted other luminaries. Present: a freshman shortstop, three freshman pitchers, a freshman right fielder, a designated hitter, a spotty pitching staff, new uniforms. Outlook: "There's really no way I can tell because we haven't been outside, but we'll go as far as the pitching will take us."--Nahigian...
...beat Craig Jones, the best pitcher in the East, and yet lose to some other guy nobody's ever heard of? Meanwhile, Cornell took two--like we knew they would--so that's a playoff. And what about Yale? If they win it's a three...
JOHN NANCE GARNER, who may have made less of an impact on American politics than any high ranking U.S. official in the twentieth century, is best remembered for his comment that the vice presidency--a post he held anonymously under FDR--"isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit." Walter Mondale, conscious of Garner's feelings, insisted in 1976 that Jimmy Carter let him be an "activist" vice president. "Activist" meant he didn't want to be treated like another former vice president and Mondale's political mentor, Hubert Humphrey, who found his way into the Oval Office as often...
Shortstop Brad Bauer, right fielder Dan Skaff and pitcher Bill Doyle have Spanish examinations today and will fly to West Point tomorrow to join their teammates for the second game of the tourney...