Word: better
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard coach John Yovicsin, who two years ago left his job as head coach of Gettysburg, remembers the Pennsylvania eague's tough calibre of play and is not taking Bucknell's record lightly. "Bucknell is a really fine team and we'll have to be a lot better than we were last week to beat them," he said yesterday...
...holder Bert Massett in the four-mile, the Crimson ace's first flat race at a distance greater than two miles. Messett won in 18:40, but Benjamin took second, eight seconds behind. A check with the record book showed that Benjamin's 18:48.4 was nearly 29 seconds better than the listed American four-mile mark, a 19:17.3 effort by Don Lash, one of the U. S.'s all-time greats, in 1937. Benjamin's performance was immediately submitted to the A.A.U for official recognition...
There are some better performances among the seven stars. As Shotover's indescribable daughter Hesione, Diana Wynward is splendid, and Pamela Brown is at least intriguing as her sister Ariadne, Lady Utterword. (They are not the "demon women" Hector describes, but that is Shaw's fault more than theirs.) Ellie Dunn, who begins as a romantic ingenue and becomes one of the quietly scary, hard-as-nails young women only Shaw could create, is played well enough by Diane Cilento...
...Porter. In his frequent periods of depression, Jimmy still has recourse to blowing his Dixieland trumpet, and when feeling good he still composes pseudo-music hall songs combining sex and sociology, one of which is entitled "Don't Be Afraid to Sleep with Your Sweetheart Just Because She's Better Than...
...Miss America has found it politically fit to patronize us, sweetly stating that going with a beatnik would be a rich experience. Ha!" Mortimer unleashed his usually docile imagination to understand better the enormity of the crisis...