Picks and Pans Review: They Should Have Asked Him Who Won the World Series in 1944

UPDATED 12/24/1984 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 12/24/1984 at 01:00 AM EST

Inspired by streetside fans chanting "U-S-A, U-S-A" as he ran past wearing shorts made from an American flag, Herbert Steffny finished third in the New York Marathon. "Sorry," he said later, "I played a little trick." Steffny is a West German.