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...scribbled something to see if a newly cut pen was working, was "Tell me, tell me if anything got finished." And indeed very little did. His big projects for sculpture were never completed--the huge clay model for one of them, meant to commemorate his patron Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan, ended up a shapeless mound, shot to pieces by occupying French archers. His big mural commemorating a Florentine victory, the Battle of Anghiari, became a blistered wreck and was painted over. Little survives of his Last Supper in Milan. And so the melancholy catalog of ruin and loss goes...
...Harvard men’s fencing team picked up three wins yesterday but lost its most important matchup, against Ivy opponent Penn, 17-10. UNC and NYU both fell to the Crimson 18-9, while Duke bowed...
...victory over Duke was made easier because the Blue Devils were missing one epee fencer. The automatic three-bout forfeit proved to be the difference in the match, but the Crimson still posted strong performances in the saber and foil events...
Harvard faces Penn, NYU, Brandeis and Duke at the MIT Invitational this coming weekend...
...Hirschfeld seemed perfectly at ease with himself, his work and his Great White World. He knew how hard it was to create a good play. In 1947 he had worked on a show - "Sweet Bye and Bye," collaborating with S.J. Perelman on the book while Ogden Nash and Vernon Duke did the songs - only to see it expire out of town. Hirschfeld called it a mercy killing...