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Harvard players surged into the semifinals last night on three of the four teams remaining in competition for the Mixed Doubles title in the National Indoor Women's Tennis Tournament at the Longwood Courts in Newton...
According to present plans, six outstanding Boston hospitals, all affiliated "teaching hospitals" of the Harvard Medical School, will be amalgamated in a series of connected buildings in the Longwood Avenue area...
...singles championship at Forest Hills this week. But just 24 hours after he and Partner Chuck McKinley (who was suspended and put on a year's probation for his conduct in the Davis Cup interzone finals in Australia last year) won the U.S. doubles championship at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill. Mass.. Dennis the Menace was suspended from the singles tournament...
...Weakened by a throat infection. Ralston tossed and kicked his racket, slammed the ball into the net in disgust at his own errors, swore loudly as he fell after being faked out of position. The stern arbiters of the U.S.L.T.A. seemed unimpressed by Ralston's impeccable behavior at Longwood against the same Mexican team that beat him and McKinley at Cleveland. Nor were the prim chaperons of U.S. tennis moved by other reports that the Cleveland incident had been exaggerated. "Ralston's conduct on the court certainly is not angelic." said Olen Parks, who umpired the Cleveland match...
Dinner and what followed were usually the most taxing of rituals. At 5 p.m., everyone assembled in the dining room at Longwood, Napoleon's home, officers in dress uniform, ladies in low-cut gowns. Napoleon bolted his food, and often ate with his hands. After dinner, there were games. If the game was chess, the officers had to stand throughout, and Napoleon almost invariably lost unless the other player sycophantically threw the game. At other times, Napoleon read aloud from Racine, Corneille and Moliere. Sometimes he held the little band spellbound with accounts of his great campaigns. After...