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...lengths. In the Stein Cup race on Boston's Charles River, Harvard shaved 10.2 sec. from the 1¾-mile course record, outpulling Rutgers and Brown by 5 lengths. A week later, on Princeton's choppy Lake Carnegie, the Cantabs knocked an incredible 20.8 sec. from the Compton Cup 1¾-mile record, swamping M.I.T. by 7 lengths and Princeton 9½ lengths. In the 1¾-mile Adams Cup regatta on Annapolis' Severn River, they finished 5½ lengths ahead of Navy and 9½ lengths in front of Pennsylvania. The 2,000-meter Eastern Sprints...
...Australia's Ron Clarke, 28: the 5,000-meter run in 13 min. 25.8 sec., clipping 7.8 sec. off his own world mark and breaking the three-mile record along the way; at the Compton Invitational track meet in Los Angeles. Clarke stole the limelight from New Zealand's Peter Snell, 26, the world record holder in the mile, who had to run a 55.1-sec. final quarter to edge Oregon's Jim Grelle with both men clocking a fast 3 min. 56.4 sec. The Aussie's great run made it four new world records...
English women: Queen Elizabeth II is out (although she is a distinct possibility as German-of-the-year), and so are Mrs. Harold Wilson and Princess Margaret (who won't be here until November). But there must be someone: Ivy Compton-Burnett? Lady Snow (Pamela Hansford Johnson)?? Iris Murdoch...
This strong performance is being pushed by a top command descended from the company's 19th century owners: Chairman Walter R. Beardsley, 59, who controls 20% of the firm, and President and Chief Executive Walter Ames Compton, 54, a Harvard-trained physician. A breeder of Chukar partridges, a leader in the fight to save the American chestnut tree, and a collector of Japanese swords, Oriental rugs and historical bells and whistles, Dr. Compton has few habits that require the frequent use of his chief product. That does not seem to bother him. He has strongly moved Miles into clinical...
Married. Sir Compton Mackenzie, 82, crusty old man of Scottish letters (96 biographies, plays, essays and novels, among them Tight Little Island); and Lilian Macsween, 46, spinster sister of his late wife; he for the third time; in Edinburgh...