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Project directors insisted that only pure coincidence had produced one finalist each from the Marines, Air Force and Navy. The big three, they said, were selected after 22 months of training and study during which scientists, psychologists and engineers carefully graded their performances. Topflight test pilots all, the astronauts dived into a program that included instruction in astronautics, ballistics, trajectories, fuels, guidance, basic aviation medicine, orbital flight hygiene, space environment, astronomy, meteorology, astrophysics and geography. Along the way, they were guinea-pigged into hot chambers and cold, wild rides in 20-G centrifuges and in disorientation machines that whirled them...
Winner Frager won a $1,000 cash prize and engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Buffalo, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit and Pittsburgh orchestras. Three times a Leventritt finalist (in 1955, '56 and '57), Frager has played with the Detroit Symphony and other front-ranking U.S. orchestras. The son of a stocking manufacturer, he started playing the piano at four, was giving recitals in his native St. Louis when he was six. By the time Frager graduated with honors from Columbia (major: Russian) he had already won several piano prizes, and taken a turn about a European concert...
...Dodge will face Bulldog leader John Souseman in the number one contest. Souseman defeated Dodge last year, 4 and 3, and the Crimson captain will be out for revenge today. The second varsity man, sophomore Fisk Warren, will have the unenviable task of facing Yale's Ted Weiss, a finalist in last spring's Eastern Intercollegiate Tournament...
...South, the University of Florida senior had nothing to lose and everything to win, and he played that way. Tall and rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.), he banged out drives of 250 yds., canned his putts with ease and never trailed an opponent, including Quarter Finalist Dick Chapman, former U.S. (1940) and British (1951) Amateur champ. "The greens are like billiard tables," chuckled Tommy. "All you have to do is start the ball rolling and it goes right into the hole...
...least one finalist in the Miss 'Cliffe contest was a Phi Beta Kappa. Betsy C. Ross '55 received this scholastic honor, as well as the honor of being a member of the executive board of the Student Government Association...