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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of insurgent freshmen provided the only drama last night in the most peaceful Young Republican Club election of recent years. Christopher T. Bayley '60, of Leverett House and Seattle, Wash., was overwhelmingly elected president as expected by everyone, including his opponent...
...Leary '60, of Leverett House and Union, N.J., was elected last night to the newly-formed office of second vice-president of the Harvard Young Democratic Club...
First family of U.S. women's squash is the House of Howe. The dynasty began almost from the moment that the first clubs admitted women to their courts. When Boston's Union Boat Club organized the first-ever women's state tournament, the winner was Mrs. William F. Howe Jr. The wife of a prosperous Boston stockbroker and Yale athlete, Margaret Howe proceeded to take the national championship in 1929, 1932 and 1934, after mothering twin daughters named Betty and Peggy. As soon as Betty and Peggy got their growth and found time to give squash their...
Last week Peggy, playing in her first tournament after the birth of a daughter last year, got to the quarter finals of the National Singles championships at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pa. before bowing out. But Betty was at the top of her driving game, methodically rolled into the finals, disposed of Britain's Mrs. Sheila Speight Mclntosh to win her fourth straight title-the tenth national championship for the House of Howe...
...made some recordings, even composed a quavering ballad titled Lean on Me ("You in your high ivory tower/ Drunk with the sense of your power/ I adore you/ Do I bore you? Come, come le-ean on me"). One night, when he was playing the Five O'Clock Club in Miami at $300 a week, he chucked pop singing "like a thief in the night.'' Says he: "What I was singing was junk...