Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unheralded Walker, not even among the first six Harvard players at the start of the year, who provided the two biggest upsets of the tournament. On Friday he downed the second seeded player, Bent Aasnaes of M.I.T., 9-7, 7-5, and in yesterday's quarterfinals he ousted Dartmouth's number one player, Dave Smoyer, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. His first set against Smoyer was he only one lost by a Harvard player through the entire tournament...
...rooms off the main ballroom, a group of partygoers and a small musical combo surrounded Actor Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady's original Henry Higgins. Head bent forward, brow wrinkled in a characteristic Higginsian expression, Harrison was quietly singing I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face. Once when he muffed the lyrics, he was immediately prompted by his audience...
Stanford White sketched before he could spell his name, painted with lyric proficiency before he was out of his early teens. But Artist John La Farge (who claimed that he diverted Henry James from painting to writing) advised White that his bent was not for art but architecture; more money in it, too, and recognition. Architect White won both, designing such famed monuments as Manhattan's Washington Arch, Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the Century and Metropolitan Clubs, and many of the buildings of New York University. But whenever he had an available moment, in summer trips through the Hudson...
...seems likely that Sullivan and Neely will meet again in the finals Sunday, but several players could change this. One is Bent Aasnaes of M.I.T., a tall Swedish lefthander who gave Sullivan a very close match last April. Bob Hetherington, Yale's number two man, went to the semifinals last year and could go as far again...
...know now" and "That's all right," poke out from everybody's rhythm choruses like passwords to success. But the man himself remains apart. And in nearly everything he sings, clamped onto the end of a verse is the bent blue note that makes his melancholy clear...