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Discouraged, but not without emotion, the Crimson quietly knocked off Yale in the tournament's consolation game, 3-0. The booters then took to the bleachers to witness Brown's finest hour, a 2-0 win over previously unbeaten Princeton in the finals. The game went on for more than 100 scoreless minutes before Bruin forward Cameron Tuttle knocked in two goals in the second overtime period...
...fastidious but boldly original scholar who was teaching the nation's first college course (at Wellesley) on modern art. Although he was ridiculed for his conviction that the art of the day belonged in a museum, he assiduously acquired Picassos, Matisses and Monets until MOMA had the finest collection of 20th century art in the world. Within a decade his enterprise and curatorial skills had established him as one of modernism's most innovative and influential taste makers. It was a status that he retained after his retirement in 1967 and that seemed secure when he died...
Regarding lawyers' "Fat Fees" [July 27], I am a lawyer in one of Minneapolis' finest firms. Considering my education, talents, reponsibilities and how hard I work, I believe that my pay so far has been on the low side. Perhaps you might set the record straight by emphasizing that the top people in any field should make a very good living. That's the American way and the consumer gets his money's worth nine times out often...
...infringement of balderdash, and his case was thrown out. The other newcomer is Alpen Zauber (German for "alpine magic"), a Brooklyn outfit that claims to be "inspired by the Swiss commitment to excellence ... Its select natural ingredients are a heritage of the lush valleys of farm lands where the finest dairy products are still made by hand." Alpen Zauber has brought legal action against Häagen-Dazs for threatening to withhold its ice cream from distributors who sold Alpen Zauber. Mattus says that he is not worried by the other phony foreigners: they may eventually learn to play...
...Puccini's La Bohème and the sparkling, scheming Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Despite taking on some distinctly heavier parts, mostly Verdi heroines, in recent years-Aida, Desdemona in Otello and Elisabeth in Don Carlos-she is still rightly regarded as the finest Mimi and Susanna around. "The dramatic soprano voice is big, and for the coloratura you must have the high notes," says Freni. "But the lyric voice is about quality of expression. It must sing easily and softly in the high notes. I think I am really pure lyric...