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...against such a background that a committee was formed to choose a new head swim coach for Harvard. The committee consisted of Cahalan, senior backstroker John Burris. Director of Athletics Robert Watson. Associate Director of Athletics Baron Pittenger Jr., Robert Kaufmann, senior tutor in Leverett House and a member of Harvard's last undefeated team in 1962. Assistant Dean of Freshmen Burriss Young and Assistant Director of Athletics Eric Cutler...
...Harvard athletic administration had different ideas. Baron Pittenger Jr. said that Harvard was looking for: a) A coach that would assume control and give direction to the team. There had definitely been dissatisfaction in the athletic office over the way the swim coaches had handled the Cahalan hassle, particularly the bad publicity they felt it received in the Crimson and elsewhere. b) "We wanted to attract the best coach possible." The sentiment expressed in numerous quarters was "Benn's a great guy but not a great coach." c) "We wanted a coach who understood the Harvard system and its philosophy...
...Died. Baron Sieff of Brimpton, 82, British retail magnate and international Zionist leader; in London. Marks & Spencer was scarcely more than a chain of penny bazaars in 1915 when Israel Moses Sieff joined Simon Marks, his brother-in-law and son of the company's founder, on the board of directors. Pioneering in the use of efficiency studies, market analysis and direct purchasing from manufacturers, the two built the firm into a retail empire of more than 240 stores that now accounts for a tenth of all clothing sales in Britain. Sieff was a founder of the World Jewish...
...readily available charms are sampled by a young Englishman called Brian Roberts (Michael York), who is in Berlin to study for a doctorate in philosophy. What he gets instead is a seminar in lowlife and a confrontation with his own repressed homosexuality. His tutor in the latter is a baron named Max (Helmut Griem), who has also passed a few nights with Sally. "Screw Max!" exclaims an exas perated Brian one day. "I do," replies Sally. "So," says Brian, "do I." This complicates matters, since Sally and Brian are in love and Sally is pregnant - by whom, nobody seems sure...
...whether Irving ever met with Hughes-brought a compelling refutation last week in the form of a willowy Danish aristocrat named Nina van Pallandt, 38, a well-known folk singer in Europe. Now on her own, she used to appear on television and in supper clubs with her husband, Baron Frederik van Pallandt, from whom she has been separated since 1969. For years she has had an Ibiza villa. "Whenever Nina's name was mentioned," a friend of the Irvings says, "Edith would climb the wall...