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...choppy that the boat was swamped. Then Senator Ted Kennedy's big sailboat hove into view. Said a still-incredulous Randi: "I kept saying to myself, yeah, sure, you're getting rescued by Ted Kennedy." A small motorboat arrived on the scene and ferried the five hapless boaters to Kennedy's sloop Curragh, where Ted, Sister-in-Law Ethel Kennedy and several of his nephews and nieces greeted them with hot soup and warm clothes. Said an impressed David Lamkin, "Well, Mr. Kennedy, how often do you rescue people from the ocean?" Replied Ted, "Not very often...
...tells the almost deceptively simple story of Bessie Bogo, a lower middle class Jewish mother striving to propel her two children to economic success during a time when even survival is difficult. Her pretentions to respectability lead her to engineer a loveless marriage between her pregnant daughter and a hapless recent immigrant. Her relentless drive for upward mobility causes her to heartlessly disapprove of her son's love for a peniless orphan. Their struggles are played out with an important group of other stereotypical characters all used artfully by Odets. The grandfather Jacob counters Bessie's values with his untutored...
...HAPLESS JUMBO BOWL is once again traditionally presented to Tufts...
Charlie Kittredge, the senior co-captain of the Crimson squad, was given a berth on the second-team defense by the coaches, who were not allowed to vote for their own players. Even hapless Dartmouth, which finished below Harvard in the standings with a 1-5 record, had three named to the honorable mention list. Yale, mired in the basement with no wins against six losses, had a man on the second team and two named honorable mentions...
...Durso, who was the starting GBL all-star short stop last season, was relegated to a role as a utility infielder this year along with Dan Falcone of hapless (1-8-0) Tufts and Dave Tirell of MIT. Durso is the only Harvard repeater this year...