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...moved up fast in the tennis world. His 1951 record: the tri-state championship (over Talbert); the clay-court championship (over Larsen); the intercollegiate championship (over Earl Cochell); the Southern championship (over Jack Tuero); Davis Cup singles and doubles victories (over Japan). His only loss: the final of the Blue-Grey championship (to Tuero...
...feet below gave way to icy ridges and plateaus. A Norwegian Air Force Catalina flying boat patrolling near Spitzbergen gave him a radio call as he whisked past, reported back that Captain Blair was right on course. Hour after hour, the Mustang bored through the blue-grey sunlit haze over the icecap. Blair sat hunched behind his oxygen mask occasionally shooting the sun with a sextant...
...various times in the history of the University, students have been forced to accept more controlled clothing rules. In 1789, the "Committee for Uniformity of Studente's Habit" required of all freshmen the wearing of blue-grey woolen coats and "waistcoats and breeches of the same colour...
...polished bronze bone of contention for museumgoers. To some it looked like a crackpot design for a propeller blade; others swore they got the same upward lift from it as from Shelley's To a Skylark. The museum's new Brancusi was a six-foot slab of blue-grey marble, precariously balanced on its side and entitled Fish. It had neither head nor tail, and no one could be sure in which direction the fish was meant to be swimming. But the slab, gently curved and polished to paperknife thinness, did seem to move somehow, and the uneven...
...high-school sophomore from Somerset, Mass., Shirley May France has blonde hair, blue-grey eyes, stands 5 ft. 10 in. and carries her 158 lbs. extraordinarily well. Her father started coaching Shirley May when she was six, but has now handed the job over to Harry Boudakian, who coaches sports at Somerset Hugh. Boudakian put weight on Shirley May, makes her go to bed six nights a week...