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Alan Mandel: Forty Works for the Piano by Louis Moreau Gottschalk (4 disks; $23.25; Desto). Though not a complete collection of Gottschalk's piano works, this sizable sampling runs the gamut from the macabre to the silly, from the awesome to the danceable. Gottschalk's music is a curious and attractive blend of styles-Creole rhythms, American folk tunes, European romanticism-all transformed into brilliant display pieces for a flashy pianist. Mandel plays it all with sufficient flair-and some serious technical shortcomings. But until a better-equipped pianist decides to improve on this set, Mandel gives...
Dartmouth received an excellent team effort, but it was double victories by diver Mike Brown and two great sophomores-Jim Gottschalk and Chris Cartensen-the proved fatal. Harvard had hoped that its best diver, Dave Silver could take first in one of the two dives, but Brown was not to be beaten...
...then, in what was prohably the meet's most important event, Steve Krause, who had never lost in the individual modley, finished third behind the Indians' Gottschalk and Al Rheem. It seemed to be a risk for coach Karl Michaels to put both Gottschalk and Rheem in against Krause, but it paid off, and Harvard never regained the lead. Gottschalk's time of 1:59:46 broke the Dartmouth record he set last week...
...Gottschalk made the Crimson situation even more grim by upsetting Dan Kobick in the backstroke, and Greg Huff's win in the 500 free was the last for Harvard. Michael, coaching his last season and delighted to avenge last year's upset loss to the Crimson, put his top men in the final relay and won that, too, making the score even more lopsided...
Another of the Indian standouts is sophomore Jim Gottschalk, who swims the backstroke and the individual medley, in which he holds the college record of 2:00.1. Krause, on the other hand, has never lost in the medley, so one of the best races could be in that event...