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Silver came off the bench to score 15 big points and grab 9 rebounds when Harvard desperately needed them in the second half. Silver was a life saver for Crimson coach Bob Harrison whose face were an anguished and worried look as his forwards were forced off the floor...
...Blake will be 90 in February, he played in Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week as though he were a youthful 70. Prancing out on only slightly creaky legs, he clasped his hands over his head like a boxing champ, then scurried for the security of the piano bench. There he launched energetically into his own Troublesome Ivories, which turned out not to be troublesome at all. At the end of W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues, Blake set off a series of feathery right-hand twirls up the scale that must have been what was originally meant...
...Terriers's two wins this season over Northeastern, 87-74, and Maine, 78-70, (they lost their opener to Assumption, 82-67), the bench strength of B.U. has helped Mitchell considerably. The effectiveness of the reserves may determine the outcome tonight. When comparing both squads, the matchups in depth favor Coach Bob Harrison's Crimson...
...cagers have five outstanding ball players and superior coaching. They have the added advantage of having played together on last year's freshman team. There are some defense and ball control problems which Hart should be able to work out. Harvard's lack of bench strength will hurt them this season. If Johnson and Wales had run the Crimson harder and played tougher defense they could have made good their coaches' pre-game prediction to Hart that Harvard was in for a "long night...
...under the ordinary conditions of city life, likely to fall." Frederick Law Olmsted's words on his noble design for Manhattan may ring with some irony in a New Yorker's ears today as he promenades his German shepherd past a sniffling junkie on a park bench and settles down to meditate on the future of rus in urbe among the tattered newspapers and paper cups surrounding some graffiti-sprayed rock. But the fact is that New York, to the extent that it is still habitable, remains so partly by virtue of Olmsted's prescient and humane...