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...year-old Laurence was the star. She swept to the American ladies' singles title, and then recovered from a first-round slip to capture the North American championship. Laurence was a very popular and pretty girl, with a dazzling smile, and her picture on the cover of the Feb. 13 Sports illustrated won many admires...
...FIRST-ROUND VICTORY in the proxy war for control of the Alleghany Corp., the holding company that controls the New York Central and Investors Diversified Services, went to Murchison interests. Court ordered Alleghany Chairman Allan Kirby (TIME, Dec. 12) to turn over list of stockholders to Brothers Clint Jr. and John Murchison to solicit support for taking over the company...
...double headache: up to three days of stiff written exams, one appalling day of ten successive 10-minute oral exams by ten gimlet-eyed professors. Those who fail in June (65%) get another chance in September; those who fail then (80%) stay at school another year. Notable first-round failures: Anatole France, Alphonse Daudet, Andre Gide, Franchise Sagan. Though some brave bachot bumblers repeat the year as many as six times, others (like Gide) bid adieu to formal education forever. One result: only 409 French youths per 100,000 population attend college, as compared...
Once the team has warmed up by playing a game, however, it has been unbeatable. This pattern was demonstrated last weekend when the sextet dropped its first-round Beanpot game to B.U., 5 to 3, on Friday and then went on to crush Brown, 7 to 0, on Saturday...
Soldiers Field tennis courts resounded this week as players in the men's and women's singles divisions of the 1956 Summer School Tennis Tournament began first-round matches...