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...CHESNUT HILL--It was a game the Harvard women's basketball team wasn't supposed...
...there have been losses sporting as well as financial over the last few years. At one time, players (Arthur Ashe, for example) would trek to Chesnut Hill each year simply to reward the club that did so much to introduce real money into the game. But now many players stay away, criticizing the operation of the tournament and complaining that they are not taken care of in the grand style to which they are accustomed. Longwood, these tanned young athletes say, seems more like a "project of the month" put on by clubwomen than a serious sporting event...
...most popular beat-the-favorite theory being kicked around this week is the old chesnut known as the "front-end speed duel." Not being known for their ability to hold back and conserve some stretch running energy, both Honest Pleasure and Bold Forbes are likely to end up in front, racing each other until death do them part. Theoretically, the rest of the field benefits from this, and mops up the two tiring frontrunners in the stretch. Sounds plausible, but things don't always work out that...
...libel and slander suit filed against Whittaker Chambers in 1948 by Alger Hiss-was quietly dropped in Baltimore's federal district court. To answer the suit, Chambers brought forth the famed "pumpkin papers." Result: Hiss's indictment and conviction for perjury. Federal Judge W. Calvin Chesnut last week dismissed the suit "with prejudice," which means that Hiss (now serving a five-year sentence at Lewisburg, Pa. penitentiary) may never again file a similar action against Chambers...
...into her trunks, she revived. The second attempt was more thorough, left traces. It also terrified the few white people at Mulberry. When their maids offered to sleep in the same room, to protect them, the women were even more terrified. When they sat down to dinner, old Mrs. Chesnut cried: "I warn you! Don't touch that soup! It is bitter. There is something wrong about it." As it happened, the soup was all right, but the sense of security was gone...