Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last night's game gave Terrier fans a little indigestion, the Ithaca battle between Cornell and Providence left Big Red supporters with a bleeding ulcer. The Friars had jumped out to a seemingly unbeatable 5-1, third period lead before a horrified sell-out crowd at Walker Arena before the Big Red caught fire, as John Stornik, Steve Hennessy and John Olds left Providence with only a one-goal lead. Randy Wilson could have clinched the game with a minute left, but he missed an empty net and Cornell's Lance Nethery came back to blast the puck past John...
MUSICAL REVUES are the stage craze of the hour, at Harvard and in professional theaters. Last fall two student-written revues in the Houses played to big audiences; Ain't Misbehavin', a set of Fats Waller numbers, won the Tony for Best Musical of 1978 and just opened in Boston; and last week this hardy genre of theater made it to the Loeb Mainstage in the form of Ellington at Eight, a collection of Duke Ellington classics. It shivered a bit in the Loeb's vasty spaces, but perked up its head and boldly smiled on. Despite occasional lapses...
...big band played well, never drowning singers out, but its sound sometimes became a bit muddied on the long trip from the back of the Loeb stage into the auditorium. During the entr'acte, when the curtain which hid the musicians lifted and the spot shone on them for a change, the murk cleared, and the audience could pay some attention to the type of music Ellington wrote without singers' personalities intruding...
After three more Harvard swimmers (Ron Raikula, Geoff Seelen and Lee Menichella) paddled their way into the big finals of the evening's third race, the 200-yd. backstroke, the Crimson jumped out to a commanding 55-point lead. Freshman Raikula became the meet's third double winner (Cornell diver Paul Steck later became the fourth), demonstrating the art of ultra-smooth backstroke for eight laps and a meet-and pool-record time...
...women's track squad, in its last indoor meet of the season, squeaked by a favored Princeton team at the first annual Big Three track meet Saturday at Yale...