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...CHINESE LAUNDRY by Josef von Sternberg. 348 pages. Macm/'//arr...
...directors never die-they just become verbose. Take Josef von Sternberg, for example: today he is remembered only as the man who discovered Marlene Dietrich. Clearly there was nothing he could do but write a bitter book and generously distribute the blame...
Since last July when Pole-Vault Champion Brian Sternberg, 20, lost control on a trampoline and plunged 14 ft. to a broken neck and complete body paralysis, he has never given up hope of regaining muscle-control. Last week, with partial arm movement restored, he traveled from Seattle's University Hospital to San Francisco to see his first track meet since the accident. "I don't know whether it's going to be fun or punishment," he told reporters. And the news he would go home for good in March also prompted mixed emotions. "I promised myself...
Pole vaulter Brian Sternberg, 20, always refused to take himself seriously. A sophomore at the University of Washington, Sternberg was genuinely surprised when he was invited to compete at the Penn Relays last April. "They paid $325 for my airplane ticket," he said, "and I don't know how I could be worth that much to anybody." Then he vaulted to a new world record of 16 ft. 5 in. "That record won't last 24 hours," he said, and even when he raised the record to 16 ft. 8 in. last month in Compton, Calif., he still...
...POLE VAULT. "I'm still doing all kinds of things wrong," complained Brian Sternberg, 19. "I have a tendency to arch back -and that's really bad." But at Philadelphia's Penn Relays, Sternberg arched right over the bar at 16 ft. 5 in.-a new world record. Just three days later, in Monroe, La., Northeast Louisiana State's John Pennel, 22, soared 16 ft. 6¾ in. on his first try. "I figure to clear 17 ft. before I'm through," said Pennel-but he is in no particular hurry...