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Paula Radcliffe used to be the pluckiest loser on the track. Knowing only one way to run - at the front - made her a favorite with the fans but for 10 years failed to win her major titles. After leading the 10,000-m races from the gun at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and at the World Championships in Edmonton last year, she was overtaken in the home straight to take fourth in each. The British runner was, though, successful off the track - winning world half-marathon and cross-country titles for the past two years. This year her track results...
...outstanding contributions to the game." How come? Well, deadpans the foundation, which in previous years has honored such All-American names as Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy, "Blough may not have been one of football's greatest players, but he was certainly one of the pluckiest ... an undersized, hard-playing lineman for an outmanned varsity...
Four of the pluckiest ships in the U.S. Navy were the old four-piper destroyers which had some of their guns taken off and boilers taken out, and then were camouflaged to look like palm-fringed jungle, so that they could shuttle Marines to the Solomons in the first phases of the campaign. All four were sunk. What it felt like to be on-and later off-one of them, the Gregory, what it feels like to be sunk in any sea battle, was vividly described in the U.S. last week by Machinist's Mate George Thomas Rhodes...
...favor of Brown's Wilcox. But last year's Freshman captain proved himself a fine competitor as he outswam Wilcox to take first place. In the 200 breastroke, Jack Waldron, rated No. 2 Harvard swimmer in that event, dug his way past Max Kraus to finish third, but the pluckiest race of the evening was swum by Frannie Powers against George Gibbons of Brown...
...cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation." Wrote Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson: "She had command neither of voice nor of breath: Panic seized her and for three hours the public watched one of the pluckiest fights the theatre has ever seen. Mme Galli-Curci's vocal estate improved but in the end it had not yet attained a suitable degree of competency." Few days later Critic Stinson heard some records she had made shortly after her failure, crowed: "Galli-Curci CAN sing. . . . There...