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...SELECTED WORKS OF CESARE PAVESE. An honest, unsparing pessimism suffuses these four short novels by the Italian author who, since his suicide in 1950, has gained international critical acclaim...
FRANK SINATRA: A MAN AND HIS MUSIC + ELLA + JOBIM (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). After receiving considerable acclaim last fall for this salute to rhythm, the threesome return for an encore...
Alan P. Symonds '69, founder of the Bwana Bus and Light Company which does technical work for over half of Harvard's productions, received raucus acclaim for his efforts to obtain the lighting equipment. Robert V. Edgar '69, in his welcome speech, immortalized Symonds with the following lines: "Dunster lay in universal night; God said 'Let Symonds be' and there was light...
Forty years ago Harvard's squash team had that string of conquests, but ironically they haven't received the acclaim they deserve. Anil Nayar '69 has just cleaned up collegiate squash with victories at the Canadian and U.S. Intercollegiates. He lost at the U.S. Nationals. Under Harry L. Cowles, Harvard's first and greatest squash coach, Crimson players won the National Singles title everyone of the thirteen years Cowles coached, and won National Team titles in 1925, '26, '27, '31, and '32. No other college team reached that pinnacle again until 1951, when Harvard took it once more...
While it was still under way, Sir Francis Chichester's 226-day single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in the 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV received more popular acclaim than an armada of Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman...