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...hitter, with a .427 average last season. Reports Phillips: "Last week I hit a home run, a good, honest, hard hit. And I couldn't go to sleep that night, I was so excited. I tingled from the wonderful freedom and joy of connecting with that ball." Ellie McGrath, who wrote the accompanying story on physiology and how it affects women's sports, was also steered away from athletics as a child. Three years ago she began long-distance running as a diversion, took on the Yonkers marathon to test herself, survived the 26.2-mile course...
...McGrath's experience in the New York City marathon underlines the thesis of our story. In 1976, running the 26.2-mile course in 3 hr. 46 min., she was the 22nd woman to finish. That year 88 women started in the race. Last year 260 started, and 68 finished in 3 hr. 45 min. or less. Something is happening out there. Fast...
...colleges and so many hungry young Ph.D.s in desperate need of positions, the job-market function of the M.L.A. threatened to upstage the intellectual encounter of linguists, English literature and foreign-language professors who make up the M.L.A. 's membership. TIME Education Editor Annalyn Swan and Reporter Ellie McGrath were on hand to observe...
...story was written by Education Editor Annalyn Swan and researched by Reporter-Researcher Ellie McGrath. Both are recent college graduates who found that their public school years did not prepare them well for what was to come. "I hadn't read enough classics and had never taken essay exams before I got to college," says Swan, who went from Biloxi High in Mississippi to Princeton. "My high school and those we visited for this story don't anticipate the challenges of the outside world; they seem to equate excellence with elitism." McGrath, a 1970 Gloucester (Mass.) graduate, concurs...
...four would like to join her for dinner, 13 newspaper staffers showed up. In Iowa City, Midwest Correspondent Anne Constable found that students and faculty at West High were so excited by the attention that they made TIME'S coverage the subject of a school-paper story. McGrath and Boston Correspondent Marlin Levin, who attended classes and talked to students and teachers at Medford High, experienced a similar reception. Says Levin: "Headmaster William McCormack opened the doors to us and said, 'Here it is, go where you want to go, write what you see. This, for better...