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...early issue of Amazing Stories, the pioneering magazine published by Hugo Gernsback, for whom the Hugo Awards are named. (Ackerman won a 1953 Hugo as No. 1 fan.) Forry was hooked for life, as he would later hook so many others. Three years later the teenager found his stride. He had his first letter published in Science Wonder Quarterly; won a contest in the San Francisco Chronicle with a story about a voyage to Mars; and founded The Boys Scientifiction Club ("I would have included girls but at that time female fans were as rare as unicorns' horns."). His dream...
...Senior Katie Rollins added eight points and six boards to the cause.Its sustained intensity helped the Crimson put its transition offensive on display.“There’s a method to our madness,” Delaney-Smith said.The win indicates that Harvard may be hitting its stride, which comes as good news as the team faces five games over the next two weeks.“We are really starting to mesh as a team, and chemistry, on and off the court is really helping us win,” Berry said.—Staff writer...
...limited him to just 50 yards on the ground, a performance that can’t be far from the back of his mind as he enters this year’s edition of the game. Although he started off more slowly this fall, the back has hit his stride at a time when Harvard’s D has begun to falter. A previously unstoppable force, it has allowed a rusher over 100 yards in three of the last five matchups...
...minutes played, the Harvard women’s soccer team’s fate came down to penalty kicks.It didn’t quite seem fair, but at the same time, it was perfectly fitting for two teams that, in their two matchups this season, seemed to match up stride for stride. On Sept. 17, the Crimson and Northeastern went took a 1-1 tie into overtime before senior Nicole Rhodes scored the game-winner in the 99th minute. The teams weren’t strangers to each other, and they certainly weren’t strangers to overtime...
...mounted a comeback that featured an ace from freshman Christine Wu and an assortment of kills from the aggressive trio of Flesher, Comrie, and McKinley. At 24-21, the three led a 5-0 run to rob the Lions of the first stanza.“We hit our stride,” Durwood said.It was smooth sailing for the Crimson following the first game. —Staff writer Emmett Kistler can be reached at ekistler@fas.harvard.edu...