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Copey fans all over the country have sent congratulatory messages and gifts to the self-styled "champion survivor" of the Faculty, who was 84 yesterday...
...Varsity football team, yesterday won a handball tournament held among the members of the athletic department. By beating Coach Rawson of the ASTP, former boxing instructor here, in the final round, Coach Lamar, a pretty good boxer in his own right, firmly established himself as the acknowledged local handball champion...
Artist, poet, and teacher, he is today, as Peter Boolba, American citizen and ardent champion of democracy, a long way from the land of his origin and the city of his birth, Kiev. Born not so long ago, and yet long enough to have him prefer to withhold the date, Peter Boolba's scientific inclinations have enabled him to pursue the varied and kaleidoscopic career to which he lays claim. From the time he left the Alexander I Technical College in Russia, through his years with Bell Laboratories in New York and up to the time of his present position...
...slick French newcomer last week joined the ranks of America's refugee publications. Title: Tricolor. Descent: from London's La France Libre, blitz-born champion of French resistance. Contents: literary appreciations of the French underground; elegant patter on a Paris midinette's chic triumph over her ersatz clothes; letters of Marcel Proust; essays on Vichy doubletalk, wartime Paris, Painter Pierre Bonnard. Editor: André Labarthe, brilliant ex-physicist, intellectual foe of Vichy, onetime friend of Charles de Gaulle, former Giraud minister, now an OWIer...
Keith, 95 lb., fights most of his exhibitions with his father, Morris Nuttall, who used to be an intermountain lightweight champion. Morris Nuttall started training the boy in earnest when he was eleven, keeps him on a diet, sees to it that his muscles develop gradually enough to prevent any tightening up-the "boxer's bugaboo." In exhibitions with other boys-most of them his seniors by two or three years-Keith has beaten fighters more than half again his weight...