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...Fundraising committee also includes William T. Coleman, Jr., former Secretary of Transportation, Walter J. Leonard, former special assistant to President Bok, John U. Munro, former dean of the college and Lois Dickson Rice, vice president of the College Entrance Examination Board...
Died. John Dickson Carr, 70, dapper, scholarly author of more than 100 mystery novels; of cancer; in Greenville, S.C. Under his own name and two pseudonyms (Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson), he created two super sleuths: an Oxford don named Gideon Fell and an engaging buffoon, Sir Henry Merrivale. Carr's specialties were historical mysteries and locked-room murders, involving a corpse found alone in a room sealed from the inside. Though his subject matter was grisly, Carr maintained that "morbidity has nothing to do with it, any more than with solving chess or mathematics problems...
...make the trip up to Tanglewood. Considering the price, things could be worse. The free performances will begin at 8:30 tonight and tomorrow at the Hatch Shell on the banks of the Charles. This evening's program includes works by Grieg, Khachaturian and Youmans. Tomorrow Harry Ellis Dickson conducts some of Beethoven's greatest hits, with a little Richard Rodgers thrown in for good measure. This is, after all, the Pops...
...Leon Dickson, a graduate student at MIT, read a statement issued by striking students at Southern University which called for "a nationwide boycott of the educational institutions of America...
...Crimson attempted nine corner kicks to Princeton's five, while Harvard goalies Steve Kidder and Rich Salvato (who relieved Kidder with ten minutes remaining in the first half and finished the contest) had to make two and three saves respectively compared to the 15 accomplished by Princeton's Pete Dickson...