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Christensen, the Bulldogs' third-leading scorer this season (16 goals and 41 assists in 33 games), was just four points shy of UMD's all-time scoring mark when he suffered a stroke on Sunday, February 9 after participating in a charity bowling tournament and playing a game of "boot hockey...
...senior center was taken to St. Luke's Hospital after the first stroke and appeared to be returning to normal. He was listed in satisfactory condition...
...tell you this. If by the stroke of magic, the Patriots do get to the Super Bowl, I hope--really hope--they play the Rams...
DIED. Anne Baxter, 62, throaty-voiced actress whose stage and screen career, from her 1936 Broadway debut in Seen but Not Heard to her current role as TV's Hotel owner, embraced heartland innocence and brittle sophistication; after a stroke; in New York City. Baxter, the granddaughter of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, won an Oscar as best supporting actress for The Razor's Edge (1946) and was nominated for her scheming ingenue Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950); 20 years later she played Margo Channing, the aging star against whom Eve schemed, in Applause, a Broadway musical based...
...other hand, some painters emerge with a strength rarely acknowledged in England or America. Lovis Corinth's Ecce Homo, 1925, was painted in the last year of his life, as he was fighting semiparalysis from a stroke; yet the blunt, stabbing paint marks and the drawing that break from high academic certitude into the quavers of a loaded brush--not to mention the conception of Christ's humiliation before the Jews in contemporary dress, with a German officer as Roman centurion--are grittily eloquent...