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...Harris, the Harvard freshman coach, was impressed by the Northeastern goalie who "made some good stops." He obviously made a few too many for the outclassed Crimson. The one Harvard goal was scored by Alec Stohn who received the important setting-up pass from Steve Clark...
Roger Wiegand, John Vinton, Doug Walter, Lou Williams, Clark Grew, Jay Nelson, and Alec McDonell provided the even Crimson victories which decided the match. McDonell, Wiegand, and Williams won in three games, but all the others needed five...
...SUSANNAH YORK, Alec Guinness' freckled daughter in Tunes of Glory, will certainly reach stardom on her own in Loss of Innocence, the film version of Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer, which Columbia Pictures will release in the U.S. in the fall. With a trim, sylvan body, winter-sky-blue eyes and jonquil hair. 22-year-old Susannah is one of the few English girls who can seem equally natural nibbling strawberries in a May-fairy frock in The Players Restaurant at Wimbledon or sprinting eastward in a bikini on the beaches of the Mediterranean. Born...
...special cutting edge to the elder Waugh's comedy. Auberon says he has no interest in being a professional novelist. He wrote The Foxglove Saga because it was what was expected of him in a literary family (his father wrote Decline and Fall at 25, and his Uncle Alec wrote Loom of Youth at 19). So "when Father told me, 'My boy, it is time you wrote your first book,' I took it in my stride...
...Jebel Tubeiq in the Jordanian desert, Sam Spiegel's Lawrence of Arabia company (with Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, Alec Guinness as Feisal) set up its camp under towering red dunes, 150 miles from the nearest oasis. Kerosene trucks brought water at a cost of about $3 a gallon, and Spiegel nearly turned into a pillar of salt when he learned that truck drivers were stopping en route to take showers. Then a couple of hundred Bedouins showed up one night, circled the camp, rattled their pots and pans and cried: "We are your guests...