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Neither contest provided Coach Bill Brook's squad with a stern test, but the Crimson was not able to take all the honors. In the Penn meet in Philadelphia on Friday, the varsity came up against one of the East's better free-stylers, Lou Kosloff, who won the 50 and 100 yard freestyles in the fine times of 21.7 and 48.9 respectively...
...mons last week, Minister of Transport Tom Fraser said that Beeching's offer to make a comprehensive study of all transportation problems "would not be practical," and Labor members demanded that unions be brought in on decisions to lay off workers and shut down lines. Beeching would brook no such interference. When he failed to win assurances of a hands-off policy, he dumped the whole railroad problem into the lap of Labor...
...opening medley relay, coach Bill Brooks gambled that Army would withhold ace freestyler Tony Clay. Backstroker Tony Fingleton, breaststroke Bruce Fowler, and Hayes combined to give freestyler Jim Seubold a slight lead, and Brook's gamble paid off as Seubold pulled away to win by a full length in 3:43.3. The time broke the University record of 3:43.9 set against Yale...
Born in Oklahoma and only a two-year resident of suburban Oak Brook, Mrs. Butler claims to be delighted with Chicago ("It's like a pregnant woman, just beginning to be recognized"). She makes frequent trips to town, adores an evening at the opera or dinner at a favorite restaurant like Maxim's ("We love it," she says, "although the one in Paris is really a bit better"). A crack shot, capable equestrienne and "dear friend of Coco Chanel's," Mrs. Butler has a passion for Paris clothes, wears long hostess gowns or pants suits for quiet...
...guiding precepts. "Let the laughs go and play the people," he says. When he makes a mistake, he is the first to acknowledge it. "Mike is the best director I've ever worked with, and that includes Gielgud and Peter Brook," says Brian Bedford of The Knack. "Mike has the patience to wait until the part slowly emerges. I'm sure he does guide you, but so subtly you think everything comes from within yourself...