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...then would have upwards of $100,000 today. But then, who would have trusted Marc Howard to handle a $2 bet? A college dropout who had held 25 different jobs between 1962 and 1969, he started Howard Associates on begged and borrowed money in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush. Not until 1973 did he feel that he could afford a downtown office and staff. He is behind his desk by 8 o'clock most mornings, burrowing through 4-ft. piles of research reports. "I've been out for lunch once in the last five years," he laments...
...team since 1955, when baseball was still played in Brooklyn. That Dodger team lost only two of their first 24, coasted to the pennant, then whipped the dreaded Yankees for their first-ever World Series win. Those were the "Bums" of Campanella, Reese, Hodges and Robinson, the "Duke" of Flatbush and big Don Newcombe, whose pinch hitting was as fearsome as his fastball. There was also a little lefthander on the pitching roster named Tommy Lasorda. He was shipped back to the minors after compiling an un-Dodger-like earned run average of 13.50 in only four appearances...
...Alex Vik. Before the match, Donovan was not aware that the teams would be playing match play, which pits the individuals in each threesome against each other on a hole by hole basis. Greis consequently found herself playing "head to head," as she put it, against MIT's Jaime Flatbush on the tesselated 6218 vard Donald Ross layout...
According to Donovan, "Flatbush is a Jewish Columbian from Bogota. He's the Bogota amateur champion and was gearing for a shot...
...years in New York and Los Angeles looking for acting jobs and trying to write. In addition to working the Walter Reade theater, he sold a few scripts and landed his only lead role (along with Da Fonz, Henry Winkler) in the 1974 low-budget turkey The Lords of Flatbush...