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Jameson M. Marvin, lecturer in music at Vassar College, has received the recommendations of the student search committee and the Music Department for the post of director of Choral Activities at Harvard, sources in the choral groups and at Vassar said yesterday...
...Marvin last night confirmed his acceptance of the offer, and added that he sent a formal acceptance letter to Harvard on Tuesday...
Carcich's fiscal sins, known and alleged, ranged from what at the very least was foolish commercial speculation to the misuse of $1.4 million. He apparently lent money recklessly, without collateral. One chunk-$54,000-even went to ex-Governor Marvin Mandel to pay for his divorce in 1974. It has never been repaid. Carcich sank millions into shaky motel and real estate deals in Florida and five other states, and squandered $127,000 on cronies, a niece and a private secretary, while diverting $278,000 for his own personal use. Carcich is also accused of concealing bank records...
...National Basketball Association Denver Nuggets, while a solid team, are known as the place where former North Carolina State Superstar David Thompson disappeared. A hockey franchise new to the town is struggling with expansion team woes, and a planned sale of the Oakland A's to Denver Oilman Marvin Davis awaits the outcome of Round 57 in the Charlie Finley-Bowie Kuhn brouhaha...
...announcement that the Oakland A's had been bought by Denver Oilman Marvin Davis probably brought as much joy to the baseball Establishment as it did to Denverites. For the move signaled the departure from baseball of Oakland Owner Charles O. Finley after nearly two decades as resident curmudgeon of the national pastime. The sale-temporarily blocked last week by a federal court restraining order obtained by the Oakland Coliseum-must be okayed by ten of the American League's 14 owners. But approval should be quickly forthcoming from men who have little love for Finley...