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Undefeated Lowell captured the House swim crown with a double triumph over Winthrop and Eliot in last night's final triangular meet. The Bellboy mermen, who downed Winthrop 32 to 16 and won from Eliot by default, will defend their supremacy against an invading Eli squad on March...
...answer to Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick's statement [TIME, Feb. 3] that "audiences used to be largely . . . cranks who also liked folk dancing because it was pure and sexless," I step forward boldly to defend the thousands of folk dancers both men & women in the U.S. Lusty, earthy, folk dancing is as "pure" an expression of the people's simple joys as the "pure" tone Mr. Kirkpatrick clanks out of his antiquated instrument. ... If anything can be charged with the character of sexlessness, it is certainly the harpsichord, whose voice is hard and chill, and rather exemplifies suppressed desires...
Anybody have any ideas about how to defend the U.S. against rockets? Guided missiles? Atomic bombs? Free-lance inventors are frequently regarded as crackpots-but not in Washington, these days. Last week the National Inventors Council called on scientists, engineers and amateur inventors to submit schemes for atomic-age warfare. Practically any approach to the problem will be carefully considered: how to disperse a population, how to guard against radioactivity, specially designed buildings, interception gadgets, warning devices...
Both Green and Crimson outfits will defend unsmirched Intercollegiate records tonight, and both are flush from defeating Navy on consecutive evenings last weekend. The Middles scored two more points opposing Ulen's men than against Karl Michael's Hanoverians...
...moment of greatness. When the Greek people inspired the world by fighting against Italy with Thermopylaean courage, George found stirring words to lead them (before he had to flee the country): "All together, men, women, children of Hellas, rise up, clench your fists, stand at my side to defend the country . . . soldiers in the vanguard of that freedom which has sprung from the sacred bones of the Greeks. Forward, sons of Hellas, in the fight for body and soul...