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Saturday's game against Army was a mirror image of last year's contest--the same but reversed. Last year, Barry DeBolt, the Cadet's star pitcher, was hooked up with Harvard's legendary Paul Del Rossi in a pitching duel until a bungled run-down between home and third allowed Skip Falcone to score the run, that beat Army 1-0. But this year DeBolt was the victor and it was Jim McCandlish's turn...
...returned the compliment. He attacked them in private, pawed them in public, on occasion bedded as many as three a day. He was a braggart, a plagiarist, a liar and a bully. He threw coffee in Publisher Horace Liveright's face and once challenged Sinclair Lewis to a duel. Maudlin music made him teary and flattery made him fatuous. He was a skinflint who haggled over cab fares, a spendthrift who swaggered in custom suits. He was a political idiot who backed the Nazis and the Communists at the same time. Furtive and suspicious, he suffered psychotic episodes...
...Phil Jutras and Northeastern's Dave Dunsky waged a head-and-head duel in the mile, with Jutras pushing ahead by a stride at the tape to win in 4:14.8. Dunsky lost another heartbreaker in the two-mile. With two laps to go, he sprinted past Dave Allen and looked like a shoo-in, but B.C.'s Bill Norris stuck to his heels and pushed by a few yards from the tape. The time was 9:12.8. Jim Smith was third and Allen fifth for Harvard...
...Kileff pairs off with Ham Magill in a baseline battle. Two years ago Magill blitzed Kileff, 6-0, 6-0; last year Magill edged him, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; this year, who knows? In his early matches this season, Magill has been playing below his best. This duel will be crucial...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Supersonic Jet Race," a report on the multibillion-dollar commercial aviation duel between Europe...