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...which means he had to keep under the weight limitation of 112 pounds. He went through grueling workouts wearing a rubber suit and spent a lot of his free time in a sauna. "It was a tremendous ordeal," he said, "but that's the way it is in a mateur boxing today. Each class is filled with guys who are tremendously built for their weight category...
Egan first played golf in 1896 at Lake Genev, Wisconsin, and by the time he arrived at Harvard was well on his way to becoming the country's foremost mateur golfer. Egan was the first collegiate player to win the U.S. Amateur before graduating, winning back to back in 1904 and 1905. He mysteriously retired from competition in 1911 when he became a fruit grower in Oregon, 300 miles away from the nearest course...
...Loeb or the HDC could sponsor informal dramatic readings by professional actors and playwrights. A mateur readings might also be appropriate, perhaps in connection with lower level Humanities courses. The Loeb faculty committee could take the obvious step of sponsoring a playwriting contest or of opening its main stage to short runs of original plays. The HDC might try producing one play that was frankly popular and could take polls in the Houses to survey Harvard tastes. The Loeb management and the Harvard student dramatic groups, in short, could expand activities to make the Loeb an exciting place...
...little town of Mateur, 40 miles from the capital city of Tunis, a nationalist in a scarlet skullcap leaped atop a rickety table and proclaimed joyful news to a crowd. One by one, he haled 17 cleanshaven, tough-looking young men up beside him, and as each appeared the crowd yelled louder and hand-clapped rhythmically. The 17 young men wore faded U.S. Army Eisenhower jackets, adorned with the red, white and red patch of Tunisian independence fighters...
...news of Bourguiba's arrest made matters worse. Some 55,000 members of Tunisia's militantly anti-Communist trade union went out on strike, followed by many workers of the Communists' own union. At Mateur, railhead for the French naval base city of Bizerte, a crowd of 2,000 angry demonstrators surged out of the yellow-walled native district to storm police headquarters. For 45 minutes, the French held firm, refusing to fire as the mob swarmed over their tanks, smashing ports and prying open the turrets. "I'm going to fire," a young tank captain...