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...Davis? Why Helena Rubinstein and not Diana Vreeland? And for that matter, why Joan Baez at all? And why is the most written about and talked about women of the present day--Jackie Onassis--not even mentioned once? Perhaps to make room for Shirley Temple and Fannie Farmer. This nit-picking, where-is-my-favorite reaction is the natural result of Life's muddied intentions. These are not the most famous American women (who the hell was Claire McCardell?) nor the most exemplary (witness the inclusions of Lizzie Borden and Hetty Green.) The women have been classified under ten major...
...this time of the NCAA's and the NIT, the Freshman Intramural Basketball League is holding its tournament this week. The playoffs started last night in the IAB, as Hurlbut-Prescott squeaked by Straus ABC, while Thayer North and South romped over Matthews South...
That leaves Princeton and Penn, teams which shouldn't really be in the Ivies (basketball-wise that is) to begin with. The Tigers are not only defending NIT champs, but the nucleus of that team is back, a group which includes 6'7" Barnes Hauptfuhrer, whose father was a star at Harvard and was the first player every selected in the NBA draft...
...collegiate basketball what Harvard is to rowing) and Syracuse (a finalist in the NCAAs last March) in this weekend's Tip-Off Tournament in South Carolina. Then there are those giants from Boston College, an angry UMass team, and four combined contests with Princeton (last year's NIT champs) and Penn, which plays Top Twenty basketball while residing in the Ivy League...
...break-up dinner at the end of the year he vowed that B.C. would never again have a losing season while he was coach. Cousy kept his word, for the Eagles became the top college team in New England, a national power, under his direction, playing in many NIT and NCAA post-season tournaments...