Word: foiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the number of second stringers, the foil and epee units triumphed in 5-4 decisions...
Howie Weiss's three wins in the foil division highlighted the victorious afternoon. Marion said, "Weiss fenced brilliantly. He was two classes above the rest of his opponents and the rest of his own team...
Both White and Marion agree that the team is going to have to learn more about strategy and tactics to enable it to compete in the tough second-semester Ivy-League schedule. "Our foil will be one of the good weapons in the Ivy League, but the other units [epee and sabre] are still not trapping our opponents, and giving the proper feints," Marion said...
Marion looks for his foil and epee units to pick up the sabres' slack. Foilers Howard Weiss and Phillipe Bennett, both returnees, have both experience and excellent style...
...Fred, 74, has long since soft-shoed his big sister Adele, 75, into the shadows. Now Fred's career as he tapped his way from Omaha to Hollywood has been choreographed in Starring Fred Astaire (Dodd, Mead & Co.). Making his theatrical debut as Roxane, Fred, 6, was the foil for Sister Adele's Cyrano de Bergerac in a junior production at their first dancing school in Manhattan. The tyro terpsichores are also glimpsed performing a bride-and-groom routine atop a prop wedding cake, with an incipiently suave Fred already puttin' on his white tie, brushin...