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DIED. Goodman Ace, 83, droll doyen of comedy writers who created scripts for Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Bob Newhart, Perry Como and Danny Kaye from the 1940s to the 1960s; in New York City. He wrote, directed and acted in Easy Aces, a popular radio comedy from 1928 to 1945, which featured his wife Jane as a dippy mangier of language ("a ragged individualist," "up at the crank of dawn"). Ace, who always greeted his friends with a joke, asked that his tombstone be inscribed: "No flowers, please. I'm allergic...
...highlights of an otherwise frustrating trip was Sands' 6-2, 7-5 victory over Marcel Freeman of UCLA, the nation's top-ranked player. The Crimson ace was 3-3 on the trip...
DIED. Stanislaw Karpinski, 90, Polish flying ace who was called Poland's Billy Mitchell because he advocated a strong air defense years before the Nazi invasion of his country; in Los Angeles...
...Crimson ace saved face by coming right back to topple McConnell's teammate Karen Kelso, in the consolation final for third place. Kelso came within a point of making it an all-UPenn final, but lost to a hard-charging Porter in the other semi-final match, a a marathon five-game classic...
Other challenges are Karen Kelso, number two behind McConnell at UPenn: Zerline Goodman, the Yale ace: and Joanne Sherry, tops at Princeton...