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Neither Buell (rhymes with duel) nor his wife had close ties with Colorado Woman's until 1959, when they struck up a friendship with the school's President Eugene Ellsworth Dawson. Colorado Woman's has 50 well-trimmed acres in a top residential area of Denver, draws its 1,037 students from all over the nation. Until Buell's gift, it had an endowment of less than $2,000,000. It plans to use income from the new trust mainly to improve its faculty...
...winning play is based on the unlikely life-story of Jim Fisk, whose remarkable coups in the world of finance culminated in his death-by-duel in 1876. Prince Erie will be the first musical (or semi-musical) to win the Anderson award...
...58th running of the prestigious meet had been billed as a duel between Villanova and Georgetown, but the battle never materialized. The Philadelphians took first, third, fourth, sixth, and 12th places for 26 points to whip second-place Notre Dame. Georgetown, IC4A champs in 1964 and '65, couldn't show enough power on top and finished fourth with 177. Michigan State was third...
Villanova and Georgetown should stage a record-breaking duel for the IC4A title today at Van Cortlandt Park in New York. But Harvard -- ninth last year -- will be fighting for third place to cap off a fine comeback season...
McKusick and Hardin were both unbeaten going into Saturday's race, and the duel was supposed to be a preview of the Heptagonal championship at the end of the season. Running hard and neck-and-neck, the two sophomores clicked off a 4:40 opening mile and a 4:45 second mile. McKusick, who had never even been challenged in any of his races up to that time, was hard-pressed to hold the pace. He took a severe leg cramp after three miles, and Hardin just breezed in from there...