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...give up. Led by freshmen Pat Magnarelli and Lin, Harvard used a 13-4 run to get within 12 at 66-54. Lin notched seven of his 12 points in that stretch, while Magnarelli had four. “It was good to see our young players stick their nose in there,” Sullivan said. Penn responded again, outscoring the Crimson 16-6 over the next 4:30, capped off by nearly identical two-on-one fast breaks where Smith found Jaaber for easy layups, opening up their biggest lead of the ballgame...
Helicopters, it turns out, do not fly upside down. I know this by hard, albeit simulated, experience. I was on the stick of an MH-53 helicopter, a 21-ton flying monster that is one of the largest craft of its type in the world, at the Iwakuni Air Base in western Japan. My co-pilot and instructor-an officer in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF)-guided me as I lifted the copter off the ground and pointed it toward the Akinada Sea. A little spin over the water, no problem, and then my instructor asked...
DIED. Peggy Gilbert, 102, pioneering jazz saxophonist and bandleader of the 1920s, '30s and '40s who led her most recent band, the Dixie Belles, until she was in her 90s; in Burbank, Calif. As a jazz-obsessed high school student, she ignored her teachers' insistence that girls should stick to the violin and piano and took sax lessons from a local musician. Gilbert upped her national profile in 1937, when her all-girl band opened the Second Hollywood Swing Concert at Los Angeles' storied Palomar Ballroom, sharing billing with fellow bandleaders Benny Goodman and Louis Prima. A year later...
...society did not want to go out of the [party fund] system,” said Wu. “They wanted to stick with the system, but the party fund was not working...
...Because I’m fast, [I] stick out,” Barrett said. “The drill instructors like having the best person in their platoon. It helps get on their good side...