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Rowing against a slight headwind the Harvard lightweight JV's with coxswain Burt Levitch, stroke Jerry Boak, Dave Porter (7), Rich Harper (6), Tim Hackert (5), Mark Sieber (4), Jack Foley (3), Greg Miller (2) and Woody Harlan at the bow slot, took off against their arch rival Princeton, and never looked back. Rowing at a 36 for most of the race, Harvard crossed the finish line at 6:30.8, with Princeton more than a length behind coming in at 6:36.2. Navy was third...
...became Rita Hayworth, Anna Maria Italiano is now Anne Bancroft. Anglicizing their names, Anthony Benedetto became Tony Bennett and Giovanni de Simone became Johnny Desmond. Among Jews, Izzy Itskowitz probably needed to sandpaper that a bit; yet he stayed with a Jewish name: Eddie Cantor. But most-from Jerry Levitch (Jerry Lewis) to Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns), Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson), Pauline Levy (Paulette Goddard), Rosetta Jacobs (Piper Laurie), and Melvin Hesselberg (Melvyn Douglas)-have preferred the Anglo-Saxon angle...
...Joseph Levitch) were the talk of the town. Last week, almost three years later, Martin & Lewis were the talk of show business. At Manhattan's copious Copacabana, the team had just smashed an eight-year house record for receipts-and in the depth of a general nightclub depression. The first Martin & Lewis movie, My Friend Irma, in which they have supporting roles, would be shown this fall in first-run houses. NBC, which had just handed them a Sunday night radio hot spot (6:307 p.m., E.D.T.), was dishing out over $10,000 a week to break them into...