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ALLAN W. BETTS
Landau was magnificent in a losing cause. Not only was this his first attempted quadruple, but he also came within a whit of winning all four. After Jerry Betts had bested him by inches in an admirable 9.9 hundred, Landau ran away from the field to win the high hurdles...
In his final event, however, he showed his true stature. Bent on revenge against Betts in the 220, Landau came off his blocks fast and held his margin for the entire distance to win in 21 seconds flat, a new Harvard record culminating a spectacular afternoon.
Wrote bespectacled, courtly Ernest Betts (Daily Express), who can be as tough as molybdenum: "A great tragic performance. . . . She has an extraordinary range of expression-from bitter sophistication to tragic emotion, and again, to the softest compassion." Chimed the Daily Graphic's Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a...
Married. Sidney B. Wood Jr., 33, one time Wimbledon tennis champion, ex-Davis Cup star; and Anne Winter Kiess Rodenberg, 25, ash-blond socialite, daughter of the late, longtime U.S. Representative Edgar Kiess from Pennsylvania; both for the second time; in Manhattan, two weeks after his divorce from Edith Betts...