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Roy Saari, 63; USC swimming star won gold and silver in 1964 Olympics
Roy Saari, a USC swimmer whose unusual kicking style propelled him to swim the first sub-17-minute 1,500-meter freestyle race and later win a gold medal in the 1964 Olympics, has died. He was 63.
Saari collapsed and died Tuesday of congestive heart...Tags: Death and Dying, Water Polo, Basketball, Awards and Prizes, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Lane Tech at 100 + Lane's luminaries
For a century, the corridors of Lane Technical College Prep High School have framed a moving snapshot of Chicago, albeit for a long time there were few female faces in the picture. When the storied North Side school opened in 1908, the city's skyline...Tags: High Schools, World War II, Ellis Island, Government, Soldier Field
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PASSINGS
Carole Graebner Doubles champion in tennis Carole Caldwell Graebner, 65, a tennis player who won doubles titles at the U.S. and Australian championships in the 1960s, died Wednesday in New York City after a brief battle with cancer, said her daughter,...Tags: Yale University, World War II, Armed Forces, Government, Heavy Engineering
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For Phelps, a new pool venture
Olympian Michael Phelps and his coach, Bob Bowman, hoping to replicate their athletic success in the world of business, will announce a partnership today aimed at transforming the Meadowbrook Aquatic Center in Mount Washington into a world-class...Tags: F Scott Fitzgerald, Swimming, Floods, Multi-Sport Events, NBC
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Kobal Foundation celebrity photos capture eternal glamour
Special to The TimesFROM THE time he was a schoolboy, John Kobal was in love with Hollywood. He longed to become a part of it, and eventually he did -- by befriending faded movie stars and forgotten photographers, enchanting them with his sincerity and his hungry memory, and...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Twilight (movie), Movies, George Cukor, Humphrey Bogart
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'A Few Seconds of Panic' by Stefan Fatsis
A Few Seconds of Panic
A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old
Sportswriter Plays in the NFL
Stefan Fatsis
Penguin: 340 pp., $25.95
George Plimpton, the longtime editor of the Paris Review, enjoyed a second literary career when he turned Walter Mitty-like...Tags: Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, Central Park, Pete Rozelle, Alan Alda
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Hotel splash
RedEyeSometimes the most fabulous thing about a hotel is its pool. You won't find any infinity pools in Chicago—the kind that appear to spill elegantly into the ocean (or, in our case, the lake)—but several Chicago hotels have pools with killer views,...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Tourism and Leisure, Personal Service, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Billiards, Snooker and Pool
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10 great things at the Venetian Pool
South Florida Sun-SentinelSure, we're the hot spot for fancy-schmancy swimming pools. Pools with waterfalls and whirlpools. Pools with flower gardens and crazy shapes. But for a swimming hole like no other, don't miss the Venetian Pool in Coral Gables. It's not just a lot of...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Caves and Caverns, Swimming, Esther Williams, Donald Trump
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Best Raw Bar
Southport Raw Bar 1536 Cordova Road, Fort Lauderdale, 954/525-2526, Southportrawbar.com Nothing beats eating shucked-to-order seafood in a waterfront establishment, let alone one that has the vibe of old Fort Lauderdale. Before two New Yorkers bought...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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'Tarzan' May Swing Again
Zap2It.comHe's been an animated hit, a television flop and a Broadway swinger, but could Tarzan be catching a vine back to the big screen? Producer Jerry Weintraub and Warner Bros. are hoping to start a new franchise based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs creation....Tags: Television, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Guillermo Del Toro, Christopher Lambert
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Some Oldies But Goodies
"The Tarzan Collection, Vol. 2" (Warner, $40): After a successful decade at MGM, the "Tarzan" franchise moved to RKO in 1943. Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan, made the move to the new studio, as did Johnny Sheffield as his son Boy and their pet...Tags: Paramount, Film Festivals, Jerry Lewis, George Burns, Maureen O'Sullivan
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A return to glory
Times Staff WriterJeffrey Chodorow, the New York restaurateur who locked horns with Rocco DiSpirito in the infamous reality series "The Restaurant," may be a hardheaded businessman, but he's also something of a romantic. Others have gazed upon the legendary 1923 Hollywood...Tags: Emmy Awards, John Barrymore, Scarlett Johansson, Clark Gable, Ingrid Bergman
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