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Stephen W. Homer, director of student receivables and Chandler's supervisor, yesterday denied that the memo, which stated dress should be "clean and neat in the office," was directed against Chandler in particular...
...answer were easy, Themistocles, when asked whether he would prefer to have been Achilles or Homer, replied: "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic Games or the crier that proclaims who are the conquerors?" A navy man, Themistocles saw no honor in being out of things. He would not have understood the U.S. role of spectator to this year's Olympic Games, or how a country whose national pride has so often been hoisted in those Games could settle for the bleachers...
...Korean War's three biggest reporting stars could not appear. In 1951 they shared the Pulitzer Prize. One, Keyes Beech, of the Chicago Daily News, was in Bangkok. At 66, he is charging around Asia again, now for the Los Angeles Times. Homer Bigart, 72, of the defunct Herald-Trib, sent a message of regret. He was, he explained, temporarily toothless: "I am capable of putting down the martini, but I can't handle the olives." The third, Marguerite Higgins, who worked with Bigart on the Trib, died in 1966 at age 45, of a tropical bug caught...
...three-run homer in the top of the ninth by St. John's Brian Miller gave the Redmen a 6-3 victory that ended the Harvard baseball season Saturday in the championship round of the NCAA northeast regional in Orono, Maine...
...championship game, Harvard broke out early, with Brad Bauer, who hit a homer against Maine earlier in the day, and Mark Bingham, who finally emerged from his slump Sunday, delivering RBI singles in the first. Harvard's all-time RBI leader, Bingham finished with a 5-9 outburst in Sunday's two games...