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With Merner voluntarily sidelined, freshman, Brian Shaffield and Ray Carthy along with sophomore Jeffrey Levy tallied six of the Crimson's seven foil round points, while Dom Randolph and Thor Willbanks led the way in epee, each posting 3-0 records. Harvard gave up only one bout in epee and two in foil...
...writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose...
Before the bout, watched by a sellout crowd of 15,200 in outdoor arena at Caesar's Palace, Hagler had said, "I think it will be a good fight. I love a good fight...
DIED. Francisco ("Kiko") Bejines, 20, Mexican bantamweight boxer; from head injuries suffered in a World Boxing Council title bout with Alberto Davila on Sept. 1; in Los Angeles. After undergoing 3½ hours of surgery to remove a section of his frontal lobe, the boxer lingered comatose for two more days; his was the 437th boxing death recorded by Ring magazine over the past 64 years. Bejines' wife, pregnant with the couple's first child, remained in their home town of Guadalajara, Mexico...
...cancer of the colon and related illnesses; in Los Angeles. The star of such Broadway classics as Carousel and Show Boat, Clayton sustained her career despite a number of personal crises: three divorces, the death of her eldest daughter in a 1956 auto accident, and a ten-year bout with alcoholism...