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Freshman sensation Minkus clinched the match with a 7-5, 6-2, over Michelle Miller. Minkus was Harvard's fifth-straight win of the day.
For the next decade he supported himself in London by writing advertising copy. He wed a British woman and fathered a son. (That union ended in divorce in 1987; Rushdie is now married to the American author Marianne Wiggins.) His first novel, Grimus (1974), was a critical and commercial flop...
Freshman sensation Cathy Griffin broke her second record in the 20-1b. weight with a toss of 49-ft., 8 1/2-in. and won the shot put, throwing 44-ft., 6 3/4-in.
Jordan first became a national sensation on an evening in March 1982 with "the Shot," as appreciative locals still call it. Jordan, then a freshman at the University of North Carolina, nailed a 17-ft. jumper to win the school's first national championship in 25 years. Over the next...
But this was exactly what gave pastoral its modern quality. Modernism resisted clear narrative. It wanted to evoke mood and sensation. And in its early years at least, it was drawn to the discreet presence, strung along the shores of the Mediterranean, of an elegiac classical past. The figures in...