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Finally there was Germain G. Glidden '36, an artist whose portrait of Harry Cowles hangs in Hemenway Gymnasium. Picking out Glidden's lightening speed as his greatest asset, Cowles, with inspired genius, gave him a tricky three wall shot, the "boast," that only an extraordinarily fast player could risk using. Glidden's matches were always played at a blinding tempo, and he captured the National title in '36, '37, '38, and retired undefeated from national play...
...World Series of squash, is the U.S. Nationals, which no Harvard man has taken since Germain G. Glidden '36. Peter Martin of McGill eliminated the Indian in the second round of that tournament this year, yet Nayar had beaten Martin three times earlier during the season. One of those times was at the Canadian Nationals, which Nayar won, and where Colin Adair, the man who took the U.S. Nationals, was eliminated before the finals...
Nayar, the Indian ace who is the ranking Intercollegiate champion, will try to become the first Harvard undergraduate since Germain G. Glidden '36 to win the National crown. Nayar is fresh from a key victory in the Canadian nationals last weekend--where he defeated in succession Sam Howe, who holds the U.S. title, and Colin Adair, the top player in Canada...
...with a handful of other young Parisian artists, formed the highly experimental Groupe de Recherche dArt Visuel. One of the group's "researches" consisted of passing out Le Fare's cheating cheaters, along with chairs and shoes set on kangaroo springs, to passers-by on the St. Germain and Montparnasse boulevards. The man in the street loved them, though many were a trifle mystified by an accompanying questionnaire that asked, among other things: "This demonstration seems to you a) useful, b) stupid, c) amusing, d) pretentious...
...quite. It's a sweater, and it's the latest style in Paris-not exactly from the showrooms of Courrèges or Balenciaga, but hard to miss on the mesdemoiselles at Castel's discothèque or in Le Drugstore on the Boulevard St. Germain...