Word: foils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Princeton owed its victory--and its rise from a four-team tie for fourth place--to the inspired foil fencing of Bill Hicks, who won 32 of his 33 bouts. John O'Sullivan(sabre) and Robert White(epee) also turned in high scores for the Tigers...
Almost nothing was certain as the teams approached today's finals. Navy, an upset winner in the Easterns last week, had no individual leaders but displayed good balance, picking up 17 points in the foil and 16 in the other two weapons...
...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...
...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...