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Swimming coach Harold Ulen and World Figue Skating Champion Richard Button '52 were awarded special major letters yesterday by the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 announced last night...
...Button First Undergraduate Winner...
...Button, a nineteen-year-old freshman, became the first undergraduate in Crimson history to receive a special award, although Bobby Jones '24 received a special Golf "H" in 1924 when he won the National Open Golf Championships. Button recently returned from Paris where he retained the world figure skating title...
...Palais de Sport in Paris, 19-year-old Harvard Freshman Dick Button gave twelve rivals a lesson in the art of figure skating, won the world's championship for the second year in a row. The women's champion, successor to the throne vacated by Canada's Barbara Ann Scott (now a pro): Czechoslovakia's winsome, 17-year-old Alena Vrzanova...
...talk you would think Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were the only two songwriters living. I'll take Jule Styne over both of them overrated buffoons. The score to High Button Shoes is truly great...