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Despite the number of second stringers, the foil and epee units triumphed in 5-4 decisions...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Fencers Foil Corsairs, 18-9 | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Fencers Foil Corsairs, 18-9 | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Fencers to Face SMU Squad; Inexperience Is Key Problem | 12/1/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 5, 1973 | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...about dialogue in a confessional in the first episode; a painfully prolonged avowal of friendship for Co-Star José Perez in another. The infectiously funny Perez, as one of Calucci's handful of oddball employees, is the show's second asset. He is a perfect foil for Coco's brand of gentle humor, and steals a star's share of the laughs himself with his ongoing search for "the Puerto Rican dream" -cars, girls, silk socks, "a big house overlooking San Juan harbor and golf every day with Trini Lopez and Cantinflas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

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