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Harvard junior Bob Lea teamed up with Bill Knecht from Haddenfield, N.J., to win a gold medal in double sculls for the United States in the Pan-American games Sunday, in Sao Paulo, Brabil. Lea, when he's not off in Brazil, lives in Eliot House, but does not row for the Harvard varsity crews...
...Director Nanni Loy, a 37-year-old Sardinian whose two previous pictures attracted little attention, set out to record a mass movement, and he has done so with stunning force and skill. Few professional actors appear in the film, and those few (among them Jean Sorel and Lea Massari) are not credited; most of the performers were found in the mazes of the Vomero, and many took an active part in the events the film describes. They really are what the picture says they are, and they mightily enforce the illusion that the picture really is what it says...
...Lea & Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce, first concocted in 1837 from a recipe brought out of India by the third Baron Sandys, and for years the world's best-known meat sauce...
...headache remedy. Biotherm, a popular European secret beauty preparation that is now spreading to U.S. cosmetic counters, was born when a French physician discovered plankton on the water of his sulphur bath at Aix-les-Bains. The first four-gallon barrel of Worcestershire sauce brewed up in Lea & Perrins' chemist shop tasted so bad that it was relegated to the cellar; only later was it retasted and found appealing (the length of time it sat is part of Lea & Perrins' secret...
...compared to other buildings at Harvard, the Center certainly represents an advance in originality of design," said Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lea Professor of Economics. "I signed the letter not only to commend this particular building, but to praise the University for its imagination...