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...United States, this time as quarterback for the Florida Blazers of the World Football League. Crone toiled in a similar capacity with the San Antonio Wings for the '75 season, until the league's lamented demise put him out of work. Now a sales representative for a ski-boot company, he admits that people haven't forgotten The Play. "I was wondering when you were going to get to that," he says from his home in Bedford...
Bright, for whom Harvard's Bright Hockey Center is named, played hockey for the Crimson and later as a semi-pro for the Boston Athletic Association. He was a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic ski team, and was one of the first American finishers in the downhill events that year in Germany...
...trip strapped between the wings of a small, twin-engine plane, where he endured temperatures as low as 22° below zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact, clad in wool underwear, a frogman's suit, a ski suit, a leather suit, several wool sweaters and a motorcycle helmet. The frigid feat ended in a small New Jersey airfield, after a ritual circling of the Statue of Liberty and a near collision with the Goodyear blimp...
...Helen Delich Bentley, 56, wife of an antiques dealer, covered the waterfront for 16 years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun. Her salty language and dukes-up style endeared her to dock workers. She once punched a stevedore in a bar when he compared her nose to a ski jump. Her expletives-undeleted report from the tanker Manhattan, during its 1969 voyage through the Northwest Passage, caused her to be banned from using the ship's radio...
...state in 1974 and four years later was re-elected by a record 522,000 votes. This year at 45, she set her sights on Hart's seat and beat Runner-Up Howard ("Bo") Callaway, the former Georgia Congressman and Secretary of the Army, who owns an elegant ski resort in Crested Butte, Colo., by 1,603 votes for the Republican nomination...