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...your recent article (News, May 17) on the decision by the Nieman Foundation to withdraw a fellowship from Liu Kinming, Bill Kovach, the Curator, noted that the letters he'd received from supporters of Liu struck him as "political...
DIED. GENE SARAZEN, 97, golfer and inventor of the sand wedge; in Naples, Fla. Nicknamed the "Squire" for his diminutive size and enormous panache, Sarazen won two major championships before turning 21. At the 1935 Masters, where he became the first player to win all four majors, Sarazen struck the "shot heard round the world," a 235-yarder, for a double eagle on the 15th hole. Four decades later, still sporting his trademark knickers, he punctuated his last tournament with a hole...
...that he had been approached on Mass. Ave. near Brookline Street by a black male who was about six feet tall and had dread locks. The man pressed a hard object against the victim's stomach and demanded his gold chain. When the victim refused, the suspect struck him several times in the head with a pistol. The suspect then removed the victim's gold necklace and fled. He was later arrested...
...received a report that a Cambridge resident had been shot at four times and struck once in the chest by a 5 foot, 10 inch black male at 2440 Mass. Ave. Witnesses stated that there had been an argument between the victim and the suspect, at which point the suspect removed a firearm from his coat and fired four shots. The victim was taken to Beth Israel Hospital by ambulance, and later said he would "take care of business" with the suspect himself and would not give CPD a further description or any information...
Even Baltimore loyalists were struck by the way players like third baseman Omar Linares, who earns about $100 a month, evoked the grace of Joe DiMaggio and other major league greats of the past. The Cubans' joyful hustle offered quite a contrast to the surly indifference of millionaire Orioles like Albert Belle, who was fanned repeatedly by Cuban pitchers. Says Baltimore fan Paul Koehnlein, a 41-year-old electrical engineer: "The Cubans fill every inning with the heart and the attention to fundamentals that U.S. players don't show our kids anymore...