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...says Captain Gordon Hall, watching his parka-clad deck crew scramble around on the slippery bow, "is anything to keep warm." It is 0900 hours, with a -15° F wind-chill factor, and the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale when she sank with...
...evening was one of contrasts between netminders. For Crimson goalie Jimmy Murray, the reigning Ivy player of the week for his stunning performance at Cornell, it was a nightmare. For a Yale junior from Sault St. Marie, Ontario, named Ken MacKenzie, it was a heap of votes for first team All-Ivy goaltender...
...other people can stand." He pours out his frustration to a rich man named Zagreus who has no legs. Zagreus tells him, "I'd accept even worse - blind, dumb, anything, as long as I feel in my belly that dark fire that is me, me alive." Mer sault is unappeased and unabashed...
...Tuesday is Lizzie Borden Liberation Day. While the jury acquitted the famous lady from Fall River, Mass., popular legend has long since convicted her of parricide in the bloody 1892 ax murders. "Fortunately there are some of us alive who will never accept her guilt," says Bill Rabe of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., spokesman for the 1,000-member Friends of Lizzie Borden. Each of Lizzie's friends commemorates the 78th anniversary of her parents' deaths in his own way. Rabe walks to the outskirts of Sault Sainte Marie carrying an ax, buries it in an unsuspecting...
While growing up on the rinks of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Esposito yearned to play forward like his big brother Phil. "But every time I was picked for a team, they would stick me in the goal," he says. By the time he was 17, he was so disgusted he quit hockey altogether. He hadn't minded being pelted by pucks; it was the chilly, accusing stares that hurt. "Every time we'd lose, the guys would look at me and raise their eyebrows. No matter how the team plays in front of me, I have the last...