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...Princeton, the swordsmen were handicapped by the absence of junior foil man Chuck Lovell, who injured his leg at Rutgers. Lovell would have faced two fencers he beat as a freshman...
Takashi Iwasawa racked up his sixth consecutive Ivy foil victory by sweeping three bouts. Among his victims were Steve Permut, all-Ivy first team last year, and Michael Morgan, all-Ivy second team. Iwasawa also took three against Columbia, and he now has only the relatively weak foil teams of Princeton, Cornell, and Yale between him and an undefeated season...
...Adam Clayton Powell, to say nothing of assorted Communists, spies and murderers. Williams helped Jimmy Hoffa beat a bribery rap, got Tax Evader Frank Costello out of prison, opened the mails to the peephole magazine Confidential. Happily for moralists, he is also a loser on occasion: he failed to foil Senate censure of the late Joe McCarthy, and last week he lost the case of Bobby Baker, who was found guilty of, among other things, pocketing $99,600 that California savings-and-loan bankers had handed him as Senate campaign "contributions" (TIME...
WALKING HAPPY, a low-voltage musical based on Hobson's Choice, is switched on brightly by British Comedian Norman Wisdom. Louise Troy is his ever-loving, ever-perfect foil, and Danny Daniels' choreography makes it all jolly good...
Harvard foilman Tom Musliner "can beat anyone at N.Y.U. on a good day" according to Marion. "Anyone" this year includes two amateur foil finalists, Davis and Gaylor. Joining Musliner in foil against N.Y.U. will be Takashi Iwasawa and Charles Lovell...