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Nilan made the record books with what has to be one of the most innovative plays seen this year. After getting a high stick near the eye from Pittsburgh's Paul Baxter. Nilan attacked his assailant, who wisely covered up in a heap on the ice. As he made his way to the penalty box. Nilan heard some remarks from Baxter which he apparently did not care for. Thinking that the moment required some decisive action. Nilan picked up a loose puck and, from the penalty box, winged it across the ice at Baxter, nailing him squarely on the head...
Just three days after the city of Pittsburgh honored him as its sportsman of the year, University of Pittsburgh Head Football Coach Jackie Sherrill, 38, jumped to Texas A & M as new head coach and athletic director. Sherrill's clipboard and whistle will earn him an estimated average annual salary of $280,000 over the next six years, making him the highest-paid employee on any of the nation's campuses. Sherrill breezed through his third 11-1 record in a row this past season, but his hitch in College Station, Texas, may be bumpy. Texas...
Martha von Bülow, 50, remembered as a stunningly beautiful woman, does not evoke such strong reactions. The only child of Pittsburgh Utilities Magnate George Crawford, who left her a fortune conservatively estimated now at $30 million, she was early on dubbed "Sunny" for her sweet disposition. She did all the things that rich girls were supposed to do: attending finishing school, making a glittering debut and junketing to Europe. It was on one such trip, to Schloss Mittersill, an Austrian resort famed for introducing wealthy socialites to impoverished European nobility, that she met the proverbial prince...
Passion for sports is indigenous to Monongahela, 30 miles upriver from Pittsburgh, a steel-gray place of mines, mills and farms, hunting caps, lumberjack shirts, car dealerships and finance companies. It is shot-and-a-beer country, "Iron City" beer. Real boilers are made there as well, and so are quarterbacks. Western Pennsylvania has turned them out as stoic as Johnny Unitas, as extravagant as Joe Namath and as plain tough as George Blanda. Joe Montana Jr. favors all of them somewhat...
MARRIED. Andre Previn, 52, composer and music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony; and British Glass Engraver Heather Hales, 33; he for the fourth time (Actress Mia Farrow was his third wife), she for the second; in Pittsburgh...