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...prettiest girl in the crowd of flowing skirts, crimson lips and bizarre hairdos-and the only one. Actress Meryl Streep had come to Cambridge, Mass., to accept an acting award from the thespians at Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals and to watch some skits from their all-male musical spoof, A Little Knife Music. Streep, an old Eli who studied acting at the Yale School of Drama, was presented with a gold pudding pot, and was also granted custody of one of the burly "chorus girls" who surrounded her-a send-up substitute for the kid she lost...
With the refs calling fouls as fast as gold speculators hoarding bullion, Harvard went up, 12-8, on perhaps its prettiest play of the season. Freshman sixth man Cal Dixon streaked downcourt on a fast break, and dropped a delicate behind-the-back pass to Don Fleming, who contributed a dunk to complete the picture play...
...prettiest thing about Meryl in those days was her singing voice. A promising coloratura soprano, she began taking lessons in New York with Voice Coach Estelle Liebling. "The first opera I went to," recalls Meryl, "was Douglas Moore's The Wings of the Dove, with Beverly Sills. It was incredible to see her onstage. Until then, I thought she was just a nice lady who had the lesson before me." One morning Meryl got up, squashed her glasses underfoot, put peroxide and lemon juice on her hair and set out to be "the perfect Seventeen magazine knockout." Boys quickly...
...down, and Fred Lynn approaches the plate. Lynn has the prettiest swing in baseball and a grace in centerfield that evokes DiMaggio, at least for those who remember that inspired Yankee Centurion. It's hard to capture the feeling of exaltation a player like Lynn can create, how he can--man versus ball--extend the horizons of human potential, at least during the brief span of a game. Lynn spent most of the year in pursuit of the Triple Crown, and he's a fair bet for the Most Valuable Player award, though it might go to either Ken Singleton...
After a reign of 75 weeks, Cheryl Tiegs has just been succeeded by Diane Lane as the prettiest face to appear on TIME...