Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Kirk Douglas (real name: Issur Danielovitch), 38, Hollywood hard guy (Champion, Ulysses), and his second wife, Anne Buydens Douglas, 32: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Peter Vincent. Weight...
Died. Herman Steiner, 50, Czech-born U.S. chess champion (1948-51), member of the ten-man U.S. chess team that played in Moscow last summer; of a heart attack following a game for the California State Championship; in Los Angeles...
...height Coach Floyd Wilson has more than a few reason for looking forward to at least some improvement over last year's six and seventeen record. Team spirit is unusually high and five juniors who showed flashes of brilliance last year in the team's victories over Ivy League champion Princeton, Yale, and Brown, are back to form the nucleus of this season's squad. In this group are Canty, Haughey, Bob Hastings, Bob Barnett, and Dick Hurley...
...cartoons soon earned him a place at the top of their list of decadent painters. The Reluctant Yes. Grosz was saved from a concentration camp by an invitation to teach in Manhattan's Arts Students' League. Though he threw himself into his work, he soon disappointed his champion, vinegar-tongued U.S. painter John sloan, by going soft, burying his Germanic vitriol and trying to establish new roots as an illustrator. But as Grosz himself noted: "It is not easy to keep repeating yes, everything's fine." With The Pit, which Grosz identifies simply as "the story...
Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, concurred, explaining that the only exception to the rule forbidding playoffs of Ivy League deadlocks were made for basketball, where a league champion must be selected to play in the NCAA tournament...