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...Three weeks after he married tennis great Chris Evert, Norman had defied all expectations by displaying three rounds of breathtaking golf redolent of the form that won him British Open Championships in 1986 and 1993. But his final-round 77 and tied third-place finish behind England's Ian Poulter further cement his standing as golf's most heartbreaking avatar of almost-but-not-quite. Yesterday included, Norman has now led seven times going into the final day of a major without going on to win (his only front-of-the-pack victory was at Turnberry in 1986). He will...
...farm." Even some who think Dole is being tarnished unfairly admit that TV is too important a medium to dismiss, and it is clearly not Dole's strength. Many supporters feel relieved when they finally see their man in person. After Dole's speech in Anamosa, Joyce Poulter, 70, said, "He was more impressive than he was on television. I had thought he was too old, but he looks younger than...
DIED. Thomas C. Poulter, 81, polymath who served as the scientific director on Rear Admiral Richard Byrd's second expedition to the Antarctic in 1933, invented seismic methods for the discovery of oil, and recorded the voices of sea mammals over the past 15 years; in Menlo Park, Calif. Poulter led the party that saved Byrd's life when the admiral, living alone near the South Pole, suffered from carbon-monoxide poisoning and began sending incoherent radio messages...
...threw himself into school-work with burning enthusiasm, getting top marks in all his subjects. Not eager to let him get too far away, his parents sent him to Iowa Wesleyan, a small college right in Mount Pleasant. There he quickly attracted the attention of Professor Thomas Poulter, a first-class physicist...
Working eagerly with Professor Poulter, Jim tracked meteors, made a magnetic survey of Mount Pleasant, and measured cosmic rays at ground level. He moved on to the State University of Iowa in nearby Iowa City, to do post-graduate work in nuclear physics. In 1939 he got a job with the Carnegie Institution of Washington...