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...Harvard foil man Don Valentine, again ran afoul of the erratic fencing streaks that plagued him throughout the regular season. Valentine, who nearly missed the finals after an unimpressive performance in the preliminaries, could not get untracked in Friday and Saturday's competition. He dropped twelve straight bouts in the first phase of the finals and six more the next day to finish 24th in the tournament...
...University of Detroit won the team NCAA title on the strength of powerful foil and epee performances. NYU came in second, followed by Ivy fencing powers Columbia and Penn...
Harvard, despite the Crimson's disappointing performances in foil and sabre, still finished 11th in the NCAA team competition. The Crimson performance placed Harvard in the top fourth of universities entered in the Chicago action. Over 40 universities participated in Chicago...
...three instances the casting is perfect. Robards gives a performance for the theatrical memory book: vain, vulnerable, self-pitying, playful, hung over, a deposed Richard II of the Great White Way who wins back his crown. Grizzard is the perfect foil, an edgy Broadway Bolingbroke with a rapier for a tongue. Unfortunately, Maureen Stapleton still seems to be playing The Gingerbread Lady. She is a jittery bundle of nerves rather than the tough stoic she ought to be, and her matronly appearance short-circuits what should be an electrically charged love interest between her and Grizzard. Nonetheless...
...Crimson's foil representative, Don Valentine, also advanced to fifth, up three spots form an initial eighth-place needing. Valentine started very strongly but ran into difficulty late in the day's action, dropping four bouts...