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...surprising Crimson squad, 11th out of 12 teams in the Easterns last week, rode the spindly shoulders of bespecacled foil fencer Dan Kirsch into a four-way tie for fourth place with 46 points, just three behind the leader, Navy...
Kirsch, who wound up a strong third among individual foil fencers with a 17-4 total, turned in victories over Brooklyn's David Blumstein (15-6), Cornell's All-Ivy Ron Schwartz (16-5) and Navy's Frey Raymond (17-4). But the Crimson foilman dropped bouts to Air Force's Gene Pottenger (11-10), Harry Pratt (11-10) of Trinity, and Mike Dwytryk (11-10) of U.C.L.A., as well as Columbia's prize sophomore Steve Weinstein...
Although none of last year's individual champions are returning to defend their titles, the match will include some of the top collegiate fencers. Marvin Garvoy of N.Y.U., who won the Eastern crown, is returning to the Nationals to compete in the foil. Paul Pesthy, Rutgers' winner in the sabre, will also enter. John Rayfields, Eastern epee winner from C.C.N.Y., will also be on band...
...Kirsch will represent Harvard in the foil competition. A senior letterman, he has more Ivy wins than any other Crimson fencer in the past several years. He placed twelfth in the Nationals last year and has also entered the Easterns...
...Osborne's drama Jimmy's wife is his foil. Alison, played by Susan Cowles, is the rich girl--beautiful, but poor in spirit--"pusillanimous" Jimmy calls her. Miss Cowles, like everyone else in the play, suffers from comparison with Teuber. But she is lovely indeed, as she is supposed to be, and properly helpless before her husband's eruptions. Her acting is strongest when she confronts Jimmy's taunts and ugly accusations; left to herself or with the other characters the pace very often drags and the scene settles into finger-tapping dullness until Teuber returns. This is a small...