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Immediately after Harden stripped away the outer layer of paper from the package, a sealed letter--which was not opened yesterday--"on the Sacco-Vanzetti case," addressed to "Sir Horace Plunkett" tumbled...
...broken six minutes into the second half on a score from Kellog, who was making her first varsity start. McCune got the assist as her shot from the circle was stuffed through the Princeton goalie's legs by the charging Kellog, who like Tammany Hall boss George Washington Plunkett, saw her opportunities and took...
...less likely candidate for stardom in Boston than Steven James Grogan would be hard to find. Bostonians, proper or improper, are accustomed to outsize heroes with outsize skills-Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Bobby Orr and, yes, even Jim Plunkett. The quiet, country-bred young man from Ottawa, Kansas (pop. 11,000), resembles none of these demigods; yet he has already begun to exert his own spell on the Hub, its congeries of suburbs and that state of mind known as New England. For beneath his placid exterior, a competitive fire burns. Says Patriot Coach Chuck Fairbanks, who saw it early...
...hoped just to hang on, to make the team behind Plunkett and then maybe be traded a couple of years later...
Instead it was Plunkett who was traded and Grogan who inherited a maturing team carefully drafted by Fairbanks. A lanky 6-ft. 4-in. blond string-bean whose 205 Ibs. seem insubstantial until padded by his uniform, Grogan has grown fast. His passing, still occasionally pitched too high, has improved greatly. But it is his timely running that marks him. "When I run some, I get to feel I'm more part of the game," Grogan says. "I was raised running the football. I'm just doing what I know to do best...