Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...swam well last night included Kathy Fallon and Susan Kim. Fallon, who sat out the meet against B.U. last week with bronchitis, won the 100 yard I.M. in 1:05.64, and took two thirds in the 200 I.M. and the 50 butterfly. Kim, who won the 100 yard breast-stroke but was disqualified on a technicality, won the 50 breast in 33.29 and took second in the 100 I.M. with...
...sight of the Crimson in just the second event when its All-American sophomore. Tony Corbisiero, found himself swamped in the 1000-yd. free by a Harvard threesome of Ted Chappell, Courtney Roberts and Larry Countryman. Chappell, also one of the aquamen's premier butterflyers, switched on his smooth stroke at the very beginning, took the lead he never relinquished, and cruised into the finish...
...converted first-floor library that serves as the senior citizen Friendship Center. Jerry Jessick, 17, center on the school's football team, and Classmate Kevin Gilhuly, 16, have scheduled a weekly game of Scrabble with Florence Stewart, 73, who has been slowed down a bit by a stroke. Says Jessick, admiringly: "She's very competitive." Other students watch and kibitz at games of "cutthroat cribbage" played after lunch by Martin Bethke, 86, and Milford Howell, 66. Says Butch Hogan, 16: "I'm just learning...
...only Mae West was able to make a whole career out of the leer and the wink. Her voluptuous figure was as familiar as the Statue of Liberty's. When she died last week at the age of 87, from complications that developed after she suffered a stroke several months ago, America lost a long-enduring symbol of an age when s-e-x was something that could stir laughs as well as libidos...
DEATH REVEALED. Willie Sutton, 79, master of meticulously planned bank robberies, whose ingenious disguises earned him the sobriquet "the Actor"; of a stroke; on Nov. 2; in Spring Hill, Fla. Sutton, who stole an estimated $2 million during a period of 35 years and broke out of three prisons before completing his final sentence in 1969, once said: "I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life...