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...straw-haired, blotchy-skinned kid, barely 5 ft. 11 in., barely 165 Ibs., barely 21 years old. He blushes and scuffs his toe a lot. In 65 years only two players had ever scored 50 goals in a season's first 50 games; this year Gretzky scored his 50th goal in the 39th game, and last week he reached the alltime record 77th goal (and the 78th, and the 79th) with 16 games to go. It is more than just embarrassing...
...Harvard Class of 1915 50th anniversary report, Claflin wrote. "I soon found that doing business in Cuba was different than the investment business. Instead of panics and depression, we had to meet the problem of revolutions and bandits...
...tree in the north corner of the Kirkland House courtyard split squarely in half and crashed to the ground, just hours after revelers celebrating the House's 50th birthday trekked home through the growing drifts...
...striking results led San Diego Superior Court Judge Louis Welsh last year to request the program to help upgrade minority schools. Joan Gutkin, Follow Through coordinator at New York's P.S. 1 37, points out that 70% of her second-graders in 1980 scored above the 50th percentile on the California Achievement Test, in contrast to only 1 8% of the children in a comparable school. Says she: "I can guarantee that every child will learn to read." In 1981, that is quite a promise...
...Mole, Pruneface, Mumbles, the Brow, B-B Eyes and 88 Keyes (the larcenous pianist). But the villains never got the best of Dick Tracy, the hatchet-jawed, hawk-nosed dean of comic-strip detectives. Last week, Tracy, his snap-brim hat and two-way radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later, so did Tracy. After an 18-year courtship, he finally wed his blond sweetie Tess Trueheart, and, says Gould...