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...Best Sellers 1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1) 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (3) 4. Women and Thomas Harrow, Marquand (4) 5. The Best of Everything, Jaffe (5) 6. Anatomy of Murder, Traver (6) 7. Exodus, Uris 8. The Mountain Is Young, Han Suyin (9) 9. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (7) 10. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Capote (10) NONFICTION 1. Only in America, Golden (1) 2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2) 3. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery 4. Inside Russia Today, Gunther (6) 5. On My Own, Roosevelt...
Both sides of the Harvard team went undefeated. Speaking for the affirmative were Richard H. DeLone '62 and James S. Gordon '62. Walter Blakey, Jr. '62 and Richard W. Bulliet '62 debated the negative. Blakey was also named the best speaker in the tournament...
...this type of concert is the participation of two excellent choruses which are quite different in character and style. The Harvard Glee Club is very large and has a deeper tone than the smaller Yale group. The latter has a lighter quality, emphasizing balance and cohesion, showing itself best in works which are essentially chordal, while the Harvard chorus is strongest in polyphony. The Yale group is perhaps more adapted to performing on its own, and its tone is more rounded, having a sort of sophisticated barber shop quality; while the Harvard chorus sounds at times as though it missed...
...just this quality of enthusiasm and interest, on the part of both groups, which made the concert so satisfying for the audience. The singers were at their very best in songs which are familiar, performing them with a combination of vigor and perfection which fully realized the qualities which make these songs, from "Men of Harlech" to "Bulldog! Bulldog! "so popular and appealing. They were worth doing, and they were certainly done well...