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...closed his final season, senior fencer Michal Gattnar left an imprint on his sport which will be hard to duplicate. Earning All-American honors, this star senior finished fifth at the NCAA Fencing Championship hosted by Notre Dame on March...
DIED. BETSEY CUSHING ROOSEVELT WHITNEY, 89, grande dame of society; in Manhasset, N.Y. The middle child of the three glamorous Cushing sisters (the oldest married Vincent Astor, the youngest was the legendary society figure Babe Paley), she wrote the book on marrying money. The first wife of F.D.R.'s oldest son, James Roosevelt (when mother-in-law Eleanor was away, Betsey played White House hostess), she was the widow of tycoon John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
...People who get knighted or made a Dame tend to be very old and wobbly. It's a tradition in England to wait until people are too old to do anything else. These people are not finished. It's appropriate that they have not been knighted. Many may prefer to be slighted rather than knighted...
LUBBOCK, Texas--Ruth Riley scored all 23 of her points in the second half last night to lead Notre Dame to an 74-59 upset of top-seeded Texas Tech in the second round of the NCAA tournament Midwest Regional...
...straight out of P.G. Wodehouse: Toupie, Winaretta, Honey, Budge...and an apparently endless succession of Violets. But Hall's wide network of personal and professional acquaintances also included many of the period's most famous feminists, suffragettes, and publicly visible lesbians-- such as the novelist May Sinclair, the composer Dame Ethel Smythe, and the Paris-based painter Romaine Brooks. Her literary acquaintances were similarly eminent (and, in many cases, similarly "deviant"): Hall's partner Una Troubridge first translated the sexually daring French author Colette's works into English; Hall and the English playwright Noel Coward wrote each other into their...