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MARRIED. Charles Samuel Addams, 68, necrographic New Yorker cartoonist; and Marilyn Matthews Miller, 53, a Long Island patron of animal welfare groups; both for the third time; in Water Mill, N.Y. For the wedding, in a dog cemetery on the grounds of her estate, the bride wore a black velvet dress and carried a black feather fan. Said she: "He thought it would be nice and cheerful...
Offensive power came largely from senior captain Charlie Santos-Buch and the keystone duo of freshman shortstop Brad Bauer and senior second baseman Bobby Kelley. And, of course, despite a late season slump, first baseman Mark Bingham finished a brilliant career, that concluded with the New Yorker the all-time Harvard and New England leader in both hits and runs batted...
...hadn't she? On the assumption she had, New Yorker Rosie Ruiz, 26, was crowned as the first woman finisher in the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon. But doubts arose about Rosie's remarkable physical condition and stunning time: 2 hr. 31 min. 56 sec. Nobody remembered seeing her, except near the finish line; two Harvard students insisted they watched her join the pack half a mile away. Doubts also arose, as a result, about her 24th-place finish in the 1979 New York Marathon. Rechecked finish-line video tapes showed no Ruiz, although a computer had checked...
Clearly, Michael Arlen specializes in the give-them-enough-rope-to-hang-themselves thing. As a writer for The New Yorker, he has had good models, not the least of which was the subtly lethal journalism of Lillian Ross, who once dismantled Hollywood with her classic Picture. Arlen has more benign intentions toward Madison Avenue. Throughout, he keeps a civil tongue in his cheek; Thirty Seconds derives its effects from self-revealing chatter and serendipitous comedy. A production conference deals with choosing among camels, llamas and kangaroos. Then comes the grandmother problem. "It seems to me," says one executive...
...then there was--and is--Joe Bernal. The New Yorker came north in April 1977 to take over as coach and stayed to build a winner. As he said before the start of this year's campaign, "We are witnessing the creation of the Harvard swimming dynasty of the 1980s...