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This morning 444 runners will jog from Hopkinton, Mass. to the Prudential Tower in the traditional 26-mile Boston Marathon. A Belgian, Aurele Vandendries, is favored in the gruelling race, while unpredictable Wait Hewlett is Harvard's leading entrant...
...seventh International Chopin Piano Competition began with a cloud of controversy and ended with a puff of perfume. As the field of 83 contestants was whittled down, one U.S. entrant who was eliminated lodged a sourgrapes complaint that the judges (14 from Communist nations, seven from Western countries) were "unfair" in advancing all twelve Russian and Polish performers. Yet when the final round opened last week, for the first time in the 38-year history of the competition (held every five years, except for an interruption during the war) there was not a single Russian in contention. If anything...
...Burchell and Pat Davidson led the Radcliffe contingent in the four-school swimming meet. Miss Burchell was runner-up in the 50-yd. butterfly and the 100-yd. individual medley, and Miss Davidson took the dive, downing the second place Wellesley entrant 100.4 to 89.1 Kim Crichton also took a second place in the 50-yd. freestyle...
...other Crimson entrant will be junior diver Dan Mahoney. Mahoney finished fourth in the Eastern tournament when he fell off the board on his next-to-last attempt and scored no points for the effort. He had held an almost insurmountable 40-point lead going into the fateful dive...
Bill Neaves, a promising sophomore, is the Crimson entrant in the epee. This tall Texan, who boasts five Ivy wins, was an outstanding winner on the freshman team...