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Guys's artistic career got off to a slow start. After brief service alongside Lord Byron in the War for Greek Independence, followed by 14 years' wandering through Europe and the Middle East as soldier and adventurer, at 36 Guys decided to take up drawing. His first tries, according to his friend, Poet Charles Baudelaire, were "gloomy scratchings . . . He sketched like a barbarian, like an infant." But Guys stuck to it, and ten years later was good enough to get assignments as an artist-reporter for the Illustrated London News. "Do as you please with the landscape...
...varsity line-up includes Steve Chandler Jan Jertson, and Captain Eric Sollee in the foll competition; Bob McConaughy, Harry Ziel, and Byron Morton in the sabre division; and Ivan Chermayeff, George McNair, Les Scherer, and Jack Smith in the epee bouts...
Other two-bout winners included George McNair and Ivan Chermayoff in the opee competition and saber man Bob McConaughy. Jack Smith (opee) and Harry Ziel (saber) took a bout apiece against the unexpectedly strong Cadet team. Lee Scherer (opee) and Byron Morton (saber) completed the Crimson lineup...
...varsity will field Captain Eric Sollee, Jan Jertson, and Steve Chandler in the foil competition. Harry Ziel, Bob McConaughy, and Byron Morton are entered in the saber division. Epee men Jack "Windmill" Smith, George McNair, Les Scherer, and Ivan Chermayen complete the Crimson lineup...
Three-bout winners for the Crimson team were foil men Jan Jertson and Captain Eric Sollee and saber men Harry Ziel and Byron Morton. Steve Chandler took two bouts in the foil division as did George McNair in the epee competition. Bob McConaughy, Warren Stone, Jack "Windmill" Smith, Les Scherer, Phil Erard, and Ivan Chermayeff completed the varsity lineup...