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...Today during the second hour, Dr. Art Ulene may demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver, which is intended to save a choking victim. Critic Gene Shalit may interview Actor Alec McCowen. Jane Pauley, Brokaw's sidekick, may talk to Actresses Valerie Harper and Esther Rolle...
After fullback Alec Montgomery pounced on a Dave Miller kick in the Yale endzone at the two-minute mark to give the Crimson an early 6-0 lead. Harvard seemed headed toward a rout. Yet, the strong and quick Bulldog forwards, who contained the Harvard pack, and the windy, muddy conditions which frustrated effective passing along the backline, foiled any such Crimson hopes...
...senior wing then streaked around right end to tally the first of his three tries and effectively put the game out of reach, 12-0, just ten minutes into the contest. Ed Thompkins, Tim Endicott, Alec Montgomery, Tom Looney, and Kip McKenzie added tries to complete the romp...
...Harvard rugby club's biggest game of the season. It was Dartmouth, which takes its rugby very seriously. It was here in Hanover, where the Crimson has trouble winning in any sport. The Crimson ruggers rose to the occasion and, in the words of wing Alec Montgomery, "blew their doors...
Waugh remarried in 1937. To his brother Alec he coolly described his bride-to-be as "thin and silent, long nose, no literary ambitions, temperate but not very industrious." His letters to her, though, radiate warmth; he called her "my poppet" and "Whiskers" and confessed that their long separations during his service in World War II sometimes left him "near to tears." Similarly, he often abused his growing brood of six children to his friends. To Nancy Mitford: "All my children are here for the holidays-merry, affectionate, madly boring-except Harriet who has such an aversion to me that...