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...Fraiberg's specialty has always been softball squash, and she will need to adapt to the hardball game this winter. And while remaining freshmen and former top seeds in high school, Heather Sullivan and Polly Butler, do not lack ability, they have never played the contact squash that Princeton plays, or the psychological game that Yale loves...
...their first varsity games, freshmen Heather Sullivan and Polly Butler lay waste to their older opponents. Although sickness prevented Butler from touching a court for two weeks, her re-entry to Hemenway Gym was smooth. At fourth seed, she beat junior Pam Haas...
...Daphne Onderdonk (HARVARD) d. Caitlin Hart (Bowdoin), 15-6, 15-4, 15-4; 2. Heather Sullivan (H) d Beth Sperry (B), 15-3, 15-6, 15-2; 3. Polly Butler (H) d. Pam Haas (B), 15-7, 15-8, 15-11; 4. Cathy Shergalis (H) d. Corrie Detweiler (B), 15-10, 15-7, 15-2; 5. Paula Rand (H) d. Laurie Ford (B); 6. Kate Gace (H) d. Melissa Minor (B), 15-3, 15-3, 15-6; 7. Mimi Smith (H) d. Jenny Bogue (B), 15-6, 15-8, 15-9; 8. Wendy Chang (H) d. Katy Gradek...
...Columbia's George Butler first heard Marsalis with the Blakey band while scouting New York City jazz clubs for young talent. "Here was an 18-year-old playing with the maturity and facility of men twice his age," he says. "He was the ideal person to appeal to a young marketplace and revive the larger audiences that had been into acoustic jazz in the '50s." Butler promptly signed the new artist and devised an unheard-of marketing strategy: simultaneous record releases in both the jazz and classical idioms. Marsalis' first Columbia jazz album won a 1983 Grammy nomination. The following...
...Butler also claims some credit for the clean-cut image that set the trumpeter apart from scruffy rockers and fusionists. Back in his Jazz Messengers days, Marsalis would go onstage in tennis shoes and overalls. "But once we started to talk about appearance," says Butler, "Wynton began to epitomize what jazz musicians ought to look like." Indeed, sartorial elegance has become de rigueur among the new generation of jazzmen...