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...stake is the Compton Cup, which the Crimson has taken for the last five years. Harvard should win again today. The Compton Cup regatta is regarded as the easiest test facing Harvard in this Olympics year...
Harvard rows Penn in the Adams Cup at Annapolis, May 4. The Compton Cup against M.I.T. and Princeton at Princeton, April 27, should provide no challenge for the Crimson...
Harvard's oarsmen have won the Eastern Sprint Championships, the Stein Cup (from Brown and Rutgers), the Adams Cup (from Pennsylvania and Navy) and the Compton Cup (from Princeton and M.I.T.). In New London, Conn., last month, they swept to their fifth straight victory over Yale, by the huge margin of seven boat lengths. And on New York's Hunter Island Lagoon two weeks ago, they outstroked Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club, the 1964 Olympic champions, to 1) earn the right to represent the U.S. at next month's Pan American Games at Winnipeg, Canada...
Illogical Logic. The groovy side of Coburn was cut in Compton, Calif., where he played drums in the school orchestra and "had such a good time that it took me five years to get out of high school and 3½ years to get out of junior college." After a hitch with the Army in Germany, where an attack of "fun fatigue" caused him to swear off liquor forever, he studied acting at Los Angeles City College, eventually migrated to Manhattan. There, between appearances on TV shaving commercials, he cultivated the mysterious side of his nature. He became a vegetarian...
Maude Hutchins writes like a lascivious I. Compton-Burnett. Her book is almost all dialogue-voices, echoes, whispers-misunderstood, unheard, ambiguous. Somehow she manages to remain irreverent and even lighthearted about the transgressions she describes. In her eleventh book, she seems more and more like a naughty little girl herself, eavesdropping on man's folly and shouting the embarrassing words for everybody to hear...