Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity cross country squad will have a chance to vindicate itself this afternoon when it meets Penn and Columbia at New York's Van Cortlandt Park. Last Saturday the Crimson went down to the worst defeat of coach Bill McCurdy's reign, and Penn has the potential to hand the varsity its second straight loss...
...Columbia has lost most of last fall's first-line performers, including the spectacular Jose Iglesias, and the Lions are unlikely to figure strongly in the final standings. Lou Rissone and Peter Javiscas could finish among the leaders, however...
...Soldiers Field tomorrow plenty of questions should be cleared up. Several were supposed to be answered in last week's game, but the outcome of that one left only more questions: Can the varsity snap back after that tough disappointment? Just how good is the Crimson? Can it beat Columbia's "muddle huddle"? Even: Will success spoil Charlie Ravenel...
...Frager has played with the Detroit Symphony and other front-ranking U.S. orchestras. The son of a stocking manufacturer, he started playing the piano at four, was giving recitals in his native St. Louis when he was six. By the time Frager graduated with honors from Columbia (major: Russian) he had already won several piano prizes, and taken a turn about a European concert circuit. What mainly impressed Leventritt judges was his bold and apparently effortless attack, his ability to strike emotional fires that sharpened rather than distorted the logic of any piece he was playing. While almost everybody else...
...plant. The most merciless predator of Wall Street is neither bull nor bear, but the peregrine falcon; the swift diving bird of medieval romance roosts in the towers of office buildings and, with pigeons as prey, makes many a killing in the street. Once, covering a football game at Columbia's Baker Field, Kieran spotted hawks high in the sky; keeping his glasses alternately on the sky and on the field, he got both the story of the game and the score in the sky: 88 hawks, all redtails or redshoulders...