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...NOTEBOOK: This was Assistant CoachTom Glenn's last regular season match at Harvard.After five years with the Crimson, Glenn isleaving for the ranks of the business world. Inthe latest coaches' poll, Harvard is ranked 20thin the nation. In the collegiate singles ranks,Stanley is currently ranked 49th, Scott is 53rd,and Peter Palandjian is 77th. Scott and Engle arethe ninth-ranked doubles team in the nation
...Broadcaster John Madden. "What may stop him is that flying," says his father Walter, from whom he inherited the queasy sensation. On Canadian airlines, Gretzky is brought to the cockpit for soothing by the pilots. It is hard to express what a towering figure he is north of the 49th parallel. His $21 million hockey contract extending to the end of the millennium constitutes about a third of his earnings after adding cereals, pillowcases and Barbie-size Wayne dolls. All the same, he tolerates the attention without strain and enjoys pointing out that Saskatoon and Flin Flon are not exactly...
DIED. Nathan Cummings, 88, contentious Canadian-born businessman who in 1939 took over an ailing Baltimore coffee and tea company and, through both internal growth and acquisitions, transformed it into Consolidated Foods, ranked 49th among FORTUNE 500 companies, whose brands include Sara Lee cakes and Fuller Brush; in Palm Beach...
John McPhee's and Joe McGinniss's books on Alaska appealed to the national myth of God's country and the manly fantasy of Huck Finn's flight from Aunt Sally and her civilizing ways. In the 49th state, one confronted a mystical vastness in which solitude is often confused with freedom. John Rothchild is drawn to a less awe-inspiring part of America: Florida, where the descendants & of the King and the Duke turned swamp into playgrounds and retirement pastures...
Ferraro wants desperately to get on with the campaign. Said she at her press conference: "I hope by Sunday, which is my [49th] birthday, we're going to start a new year." But the troubles of the past two weeks may not simply fade away. The House ethics committee could take up the question of her disclosure exemption on Sept. 12 at its final meeting of this congressional session. An inquiry is unlikely, however, since Ferraro is leaving Congress at the end of this term. There is also the Federal Election Commission, which has begun a review...