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Harvard should never have lost to Princeton Friday night. The Tigers have only one ballplayer who could start for us and on paper don't took like a major threat. Yet under the leadership of one of the finest coachers in the league, Pete Carrill, the Tigers play the type of disciplined basketball necessary to play with teams which have far better material. Princeton stayed with their basic offcase which consisted of a weave and pivot split-all night and never cracked. Their forwards and center were content to pass off most of the time they got the ball, hoping...
...what was perhaps the finest Harvard performance of the meet. Brumwell and Phil Johnkheer pulled a completely unexpected 1-2 sweep in the 200-yd. Breastroke to clinch the meet Brumwell. Who is already turning in performances midway through the season similar to his record-setting swims at the end of last season, won the race in a pool record time of 2:14.7, just fractions off his school mark...
...virtually everything she knew about the flute from Kincaid. Shortly before his death in 1967 at the age of 71, he had handed down his extraordinary platinum flute to her. She was not just the queen of the flute, but one of the world's two or three finest concert flutists, male or female. In 1971, Shaffer and Pianist Hephzibah Menuhin gave the world premiere of the new work at a benefit for Philadelphia's Settlement Music School, with Copland in attendance. Last week in New York, Shaffer recorded the work for Columbia Records, this time with Copland...
...SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES by John Gardner. In the finest novel of the year wisdom and magic turn a small American town into the metaphysical crossroads of the modern world...
...Victoria is the first of two books. It takes the sovereign's life as far as the death of Albert, her prince consort, in 1861. The author had access to the Royal Family Archives at Windsor, and her rich effort at historical reconstruction is one of the finest biographies in English since George Painter's classic Marcel Proust. It is also an engrossing love story. Woodham-Smith is a historian, not a Crawfie. Her romance, moreover, is told without sentimentality and is set against the forbidding complexities of 19th century European politics...