Word: gayness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bunch of the Boys. The Rubinstein who returned to Paris in 1920 had money, a growing reputation, and a still unsatiated hunger for the gay life of a gadabout bachelor ("I was 90% interested in women," he chuckles). He shared an apartment with a count, tooled around the boulevards in "a little carriage," and "was thin as a stick because I never went to bed until the morning." On Saturday nights he toured the cafes with a bunch of the boys?Milhaud, Auric, Poulenc?and helped popularize their music, as well as that of his friends Debussy, Saint-Saens, Ravel...
...number one match should be the tightest, and a real doozie besides. Adams will shovel his repertoire of shots against the slam game of Yale captain John West. Against Princeton's Burt Gay last Saturday. West won a 3-0 victory with frightening case. Maybe West will remember back to his freshman year, after winning the national junior championship, when Adams blasted him by a 3-0 score...
They will be facing 22 other teams, composed of the best amateur racquetmen from colleges, elties regions, and countries. Several years ago, for example, Harvard lost in the finals to a man squad of Canada's outstanding players. Other college teams entered at Princeton and Navy. Ironically, Burr Gay, Princeton's top player who lost to Adams Wednesday, issue play in the individual competition since he won the New York Invitation Tournament over Christmas vacation...
Kourides won the final match, but the day's hero was Crimson captain Dinny Adams. With Harvard trailing 4-3, Adams defeated Burt Gay, the nation's top-rated college player...
...games and aware that Princeton needed only one more match for the victory, Adams pulled out a tense fourth game in which neither player could maintain a lead of more than two points. At 13-12 for Adams, they cautiously exchanged deep strokes for a couple of minutes before Gay tinned a drop volley. Adams whipped a back-hand cross-court past him for the game-winning point...