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...still find Edo Marion, on old world fencing master, who single-handedly keeps enough people returning to fencing year after year at Harvard to maintain a competitive program. Edo, who after 25 years at Harvard, still has an accent one could find in the market district of Prague, who talks more and more rapidly with each succeeding year and demands more and more concentration to understand, who is a humanitarian and an artist first and a coach second, who punctuates his nearly-unintelligible stream of consciousness conversations with nostalgic recollections of Europe and his variable and impressive career. Edo...
...EDO MARION, who is as proud of his four fencing Rhodes Scholars as he is of his individual All-Americans, who teaches fencing from the rudiments to subtleties to build his contending teams, who annually unleashes his troops on New York City and relishes good wine and Tchaikovsky as much as fencing, who transports his squad in his personal car with driving skills ranking somewhere between a Boston taxi driver and a blind man, who has become a living tradition, an expectation, a pleasant and different surprise, who fits the kindly old world professor image more than the American coaching...
Crimson coach Edo Marion yesterday expressed his pleasure with the selection. "I'm very happy for Terry," Marion said. "He worked hard at dencing for four years, and succeeded despite limited natural ability...
Fichter, Mr. Frustration for coach Edo Marion, possessed perhaps the finest technical ability in the East but could not, as old Floyd Patterson could not, move for the kill once he got the lead. The number of times Fichter blew a two-or three-touch lead and lost would boggle the mind...
Over 40 universities will compete in the three-day competition, and Crimson coach Edo Marion said yesterday that he would like to see Harvard finish in the top eight. Last year, despite an All-American performance in epee by Geza Tatrallyay, the Crimson came in a disappointing 11th...