As a host at WGN in Chicago for 60 years, he shared news that was essential to farmers in a homespun style that appealed to ...
Orion Samuelson, a radio journalist known around the country for his reports on the agricultural industry, died this week.
Jul. 28—Joan Benoit was already the world-record holder in the women's marathon. The 27-year-old Cape Elizabeth native and Bowdoin College graduate had won the Boston Marathon twice. But this was ...
As Joan Benoit Samuelson negotiated the hairpin turn into the Coliseum tunnel, ran past the USC locker room and onto the stadium’s red synthetic track for the final 400 meters of the 1984 Olympic ...
Joan Benoit Samuelson holds an American flag in celebration after winning gold in the women's marathon at the 1984 L.A. Olympic Games. (Lennox McLendon / Associated Press) As Joan Benoit Samuelson ...