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...towering Fred Gwynne '51 departs from the usual Falstaffian Sir Toby, and gives full rein to his wellknown comedic talents, whether goosing Maria, hiccuping or extracting hidden booze from unexpected places. He also proves himself, in his fight with Sebastian, to be a really first-rate fencer--which seems all the more impressive in the wake of the sidesplittingly inept duel between Viola and Sir Andrew, both of whose foils fly into the air at the opening engagement en quarte, and, later on, wind up in a single hand. Farcical fencing is no easy trick to pull off, and Patrick...
...Foil fencer Philippe Bennett and sabre man Gordon Rutledge, kingpins on Harvard's Ivy co-champion fencing team this year, saved their finest performances for the final competition of the season, capturing All-America honors last week at the NCAA Championships at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio...
Both sabre man Gordon Rutledge and foil fencer Phillipe Bennett ran up 7-3 bouting records in the opening round of competition to move on to the finals, which run today and tomorrow...
...Gordon and Phillipe are as qualified All-American candidates as any others here," Marion said. "I am pretty confident that they can do it." To attain All-American standing, a fencer must finish in the top six in his weapon...
...performance of White was a sad repetition of last year's NCAAs. Harvard's All-Ivy epee champion just couldn't get untracked in the preliminaries. "Eugene was nervous as usual," Marion said. "He is a very fine and competent fencer, but he worries too much. He just got too wound up today...