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...varsity lacrosse team meets Trinity at 2 p.m. at Hartford this afternoon, in what will probably be the Crimson's last breather contest of the season...
Today's game is considered a breather before Saturday's contest with Army, and recuperating shortstop Ed Krinsky will probably sit this one out, although he may get into the late innings. In the catching position Dick Clasby or regular starter Bin Crosby are both reported ready. Clasby, typed as a late starter, has been hitting well in practice sessions this week. The outfield will be the Princeton trio of Don Butters, Captain Dick Scheer, and Bill Chauncey...
...through a dozen musical numbers, with Margo chanting in her smoky contralto, Eddie singing, when he sings, in about the same vocal range, both of them whirling and capering between times. The act begins at breakneck tempo, works itself into an autobiographical lather (Never Marry a Dancer), takes a breather when Albert throws all his theatrical technique into September Song a la Walter Huston. Then it sidles off into a calypso tempo (Man, Man Is for the Woman Made), goes serious again when Margo dramatizes a mother's prayer (from Irwin Shaw's Sons and Soldiers), winds...
Idea for the course came from the law school's Dean Orrin Evans, who has long felt that a lot of lawyers are not cultured enough-and that law students needed a breather from their case books. Ten months ago, Professor William Davenport of the university's English department started to compile a bibliography, by now has found more than 200 works by or about lawyers. Among the first items studied by his students: Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster, Willa Gather's Paul's Case. Davenport also gives students...
Following the Army and Princeton matches the team returns to Cambridge and should have a breather when it meets Boston University Wednesday...