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Lynn was obviously never taught to play baseball the way he does, because he lives by an ethereal instinct on the field. In center, he moves with the ball, not simply to it or at it. At the plate, his swing has nothing unnatural about it; the stroke is so patently correct, that others are no doubt compelled to try to copy it: the high left elbow, the perfect isoceles triangle of arms and chest at the moment of contact, and the long and level follow-through. But no one could imitate it, at least not exactly, because...
...wanted, Leach hired two pop idols for the leads, Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith. "We weren't out to do a rock version of Gilbert and Sullivan," he explains. "I wanted pop singers to make us rehear the lines." In fact, that seemingly odd casting was a master stroke, and both performers may be duly anointed as perfect in their parts. Ronstadt, 34, looks as innocent as a fawn and is able to hit high notes that her rock fans probably never knew existed. Even she was surprised. "I discovered I had this other voice that...
Several students were setting off firecrackers in the quad at the stroke of midnight in part of the Quad's midnight "howl celebration" to begin exam period...
...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...
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...