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...Philadelphia for his statue of William Penn atop the city hall. But Calder early abandoned the thousand-year tradition that insisted upon sculpture as a form-in-the-round whose contours were its boundaries. He embraced space with his mobiles, sometimes in a bear hug, sometimes in a fencer's riposte. He became known as the man who made sculpture move. Actually, the Russian constructivists and Dadaist Marcel Duchamp did it years before him, but no one has ever made cubic feet dance and gambol as has Calder. His work is the apotheosis of open form: space...
...sabre fencer, Kolb finished his first season of varsity competition with a 19-11 overall record and a 10-2 Ivy mark. He fenced in all the squad's league matches except the one with Columbia...
Kolb is a left-handed fencer, the only one on the Crimson team. Being left-hander is considered a decided advantage in competition...
Princeton's Hicks provided many of the thrills of the tournament, racking up 32 wins and losing only to N.Y.U.'s star fencer Marvin Garovoy (29-4). Winner of the individual foil championship award and a member of the First All American Team, Hicks was voted the Illinois Memorial Trophy for "best Fencer of the Year...
Sophomore Bill Neaves, with a creditable 15-7 mark, was tied with three other fencers for fourth place in the epee, far behind Rutgers' astounding Paul Pesthy, the tournament's outstanding fencer with a 21-1 mark. Navy's Benson Williams, and the Air Force's Jack Patterson were closest to Pesthy with 16-5 scores...