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Also back - quite literally - on an old stomping ground last week was Chicago Correspondent Richard Woodbury, who reported to the Nation section on Round-the-World Walker David Kunst. Following on the heels of an earlier crack at peripatetic journalism - a glide-along with Cross-Country Roller Skater Clint Shaw last June -Woodbury logged ten huffing-and-puffing miles of legwork with the quick Kunst against a stiff head wind on a northern Iowa road...
Shaw is convoyed by Andy Turner, a home-town pal driving a green and white Ford camper in which the skater eats at least five meals a day (steak, hamburger or eggs). He has been getting a hero's greeting at small towns en route. He has also been treated at three hospitals for blisters and muscle strains. In Flora, Ill., where TIME'S Dick Woodbury first caught up with the long-distance roller, Shaw was made an honorary citizen by the mayor. In most towns he is besieged by autograph seekers and frequently treated to a free...
...president two years later. He caused major rhubarbs by firing two pillars of the Yankee dynasty, Managers Casey Stengel and Yogi Berra, but won 14 American League pennants before quitting the front office in 1966. Sleek, perennially tanned, Topping was married six times (to Actress Arline Judge and Skater Sonja Henie, among others), divorced five...
...Black Hawks then pulled Esposito for a sixth skater, but it was to no avail as Phil Esposito, Tony's brother, wrapped up the Bruins' victory with an open-net goal...
McGrath is the first in the professional world to receive a perfect mark for interpretation. "Usually, in order to win, a skater must work on jumps and a lot of technical things," he said...