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Dervish Loops. Christensen, on the other hand, is a bachelor with Beatle-length hair, eyes that blaze like a Blake archangel's and a preference for girls in floppy trousers. Son of a Nebraska farmer, truck driver and "you name it," he studied art at the Kansas City Art Institute. He abandoned his geometric-strip canvases because they were "constricting." Now he lays his canvas on the floor and paints or sprays the background on. Next he sprays on the dancing dervish loops and lines that race across them with an industrial airbrush. Finally, he cuts out the picture...
Johnny Lee, Harvard's varsity wrestling coach, was recently named to the United States Olympic Committee. The length of his term is four years...
...coach Barnaby. Only a rout of Penn by Princeton and a Harvard win over the Tigers averted a total tragedy. Harry Parker's crew had worse lunch when it tried to retain the Adams Cup for the sixth year in a row. Penn eased to a 1 1/2 length victory, and it seemed that the world might come to an end after...
...they ran away from the supposedly strong Penn boats. Heavyweight cox Tom Tiffany, who was journalistically raped by the New York Times after the Adams Cup loss to Penn when they claimed his steering was a major factor in the loss, guided the boat to a resounding 1 1/2 length triumph over the Quakers at Worcester. It was good to get another Penn shirt...
...apparently a few seconds faster then the other boats." Coach Stephen Gladstone said. "It would be no surprise to me if the boats in the finals all finished within a length of each other," he added...