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Time had run out as a Princeton freshman, Justine Koeppen, stood alone at the foul line. Two teams and 30 spectators looked on. She bounced the ball once...twice. She took a deep breath, shot...and missed. No sighs emerged from the Princeton bench. No cheers sounded from the Harvard bench or the Briggs bleachers...
Four men-a scholar, two former intelligence agents and Author Cornelius Ryan (The Longest Day)-died trying to write this book. There is no evidence of foul play in any of their ends, but the quadruple coincidence is a fitting postscript to the life of William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan. Founder of the Office of Strategic Services, the nation's first spy agency, Donovan was a figure of epic personal courage, vast energy and enduring mystery. "What a man!" President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared when Donovan died in 1959. "We have lost the last hero...
...center Chris Kelly drove past Trout and the Crimson center made contact, committing his fifth personal foul and sending Kelly to the line to break the tie. By the time Kelly finished his 10-point scoring spree. Yale was on its way to a 78-72 dismissal of the Crimson before a rowdy crowd of 1300 at Briggs Athletic Center...
...good when the Stroh Brewery Co. of Detroit acquired it. The loss of the hometown brewery was a severe psychological blow. Another Milwaukee tradition, the Harley-Davidson motorcycle company, has been outgunned by Japanese competition. Until this recession, Milwaukee (pop. 636,000) had prospered through fair economic times and foul. Its unemployment rate, along with Wisconsin's, was historically lower than the national average. Now it is higher: 13.4% for the city (11.5% for the state). Layoffs and plant closings in the city, which used to call itself the "machine shop of the world," have left residents bitter...
...great Los Angeles success, so Wooden's methods reached Walton long before Walton reached U.C.L.A. He already knew how to play. At 14, Walton had been a 6-1 guard; by 16, he was a 6-10 pivotman. In the N.B.A., where centers are apt to lope foul line to foul line, he ran base line to base line playing all the positions. "I love almost everything about the game," he says, "the life, the players, the crowds. Just being out there, the competition. I missed...