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...Iron Horse, 200-Ib. Lou Gehrig, played in a record 2130 consecutive games. A 148-Ib, player in second on the major league consecutive games list, with a 1307-game streak. This dimunitive shortstop managed the feat, despite being traded in the middle of his streak. For ten points name...
DIED. Gordon Jenkins, 73, pop-music arranger and conductor whose shimmering, swirling string backgrounds enhanced the performances, on records and TV, of such stars as Judy Garland, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease); in Malibu, Calif. Pianist Jenkins started composing and arranging with the Swing Era's big bands, wrote Benny Goodman's closing theme, Goodbye, and won a Grammy Award for his stylish 1965 arrangement of Sinatra's It Was a Very Good Year...
...Gehrig holds only one Columbia record most strikeouts in a game. 17 vs Williams in 1923. Harvard split with Columbia last year, too... The Crimson now trails the series with the Lions 22-55-1. Larkin was the EIBL's second leading batter last year, holding an average above 500. Harvard returns home for a Tuesday with Greater Boston League foe Branders. The Crimson moves to Boston College the following day. Crimson 3, Lions 2 Columbia ab r h bi Dipasupil 2b 4 0 0 0 DiChurocf 4 1 3 0 Larkin 3b 4 0 0 0 Meyers...
DIED. Eleanor Gehrig, 79, widow of New York Yankee Star Lou Gehrig; in New York City. A high-spirited Chicago socialite, Eleanor Twitchell met the baseball slugger at Chicago's Comiskey Park and married him in 1933. Their life together, dramatized in the 1942 movie The Pride of the Yankees and the 1977 TV film A Love Affair, ended after eight years, with his death at 37 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
When the struggle over the War Powers Act began last month, the man who designed that legislation, former New York Senator Jacob Javits, went to the Capitol to urge its use. His body is crippled by Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), but his mind is still honed by his love of reason and country. He would have preferred a six-month limit on presidential authority to keep the Marines in Lebanon instead of the 18-month limit President Reagan wanted. But when it was apparent the six-month limit did not have the necessary votes to pass...