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Considering its enormous turnover of personnel, not to mention the acquiring of a new conductor, the Bach Society Orchestra performed surprisingly well last night in its first concert of the season. Unfortunately, the group has an almost Olympian reputation and it will take a long period of hard work and playing together before they can meet the standards of past years...
Citation: "We remember your poems that make a miracle of language . . . [and] the no less sensitive critical insights . . . Finally, we remember that your Olympian preoccupation does not prevent you from loving a ball game, a horse race, a political campaign, a televised western and tomatoes in your garden...
...Ohio State's Olympian Glenn Davis was easily the star of the Big Ten track championships at Lafayette, Ind. Running around two turns of the carefully tamped track, Davis was clocked in 0:45.8, tying the 440-yd. world's record set in 1956 by another U.S. Olympian. California's Jim Lea. Davis' performance was all the more impressive since Lea set his mark running out of a chute at Modesto, Calif., was slowed down by only one turn. Big Ten team champion: Illinois. Second: the Hoosiers of Indiana...
...easy to deify such a man, to build up myths that describe his "Olympian" stature. Rather than explaining his prominence, however, colorful fables tend to obscure the true nature of his greatness: devoted scholarship and inspired teaching...
...After warming up with an easy 1,500-meter freestyle victory at the A.A.U. national indoor swimming championships in New Haven, Australian Olympian Murray Rose, 18, felt so relaxed that he forgot to count the laps when he kicked off next night in the 22O-yd. grind. With only 20 yds. left to go, Murray, now a Southern California freshman, suddenly realized the race was almost over. He thrashed up to full speed, just managed to come up from third to touch out his countryman and collegemate, Jon Henricks. in a meet-record...