World Report: February 26, 1999 Vol.4 No.18

I Forgot How To Forget!

Could you memorize a list of 3,125 words? A hundred names and faces? How about 1,000 numbers, a 54-line poem and 52 shuffled cards? Tatiana Cooley, 27, did all of that to win a national memory contest February 6 in New York City. Next she will compete in an international contest in England. Cooley honed her memory as a kid. Instead of watching TV, she says, "we played games a lot." Which ones? Concentration and Memory, of course!