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...conditioning equipment atop the mansard roof, the interior has changed beyond recognition. Clever designing increased the usable floor space by 50 per cent without changing the hallowed limestone blocks. Architects Collaborative, which drew the reconstruction plans, gained space primarily by adding an extra floor, in fact one-and-a-half more floors the mezzanine and by eliminating the cavernous stairwell...
...varsity lacrosse team faced a strong, fast University of New Hampshire squad yesterday afternoon and received its sixth loss of the season, 19 to 5. For one-and-a-half periods, however, the team played as well as it has all spring...
...dive to Gary Tobian and Dick Connor of the U.S. and the highest marks to Russian divers. Even so, Tobian climbed to the platform for his last dive, nursing a slight lead over Mexico's classy Joaquin Capilla. Tobian flipped through a running double-twisting for ward one-and-a-half somersault with such consummate grace that his detractors could only hold him down to a high 19.76 points. Then Capilla soared into an equally spectacular double-twisting forward one-and-a-half and scored enough to win the championship by .03 of a point. A protest from...
Next day, overcoming the judges with a peerless exhibition, the women's defending champion, comely Pat McCormick, 26, a California housewife, spun through intricate optional dives, performed a final running full-twisting forward one-and-a-half somersault that was good enough to add the platform title to her springboard victory and make her the first diver ever to win both titles in two Olympics. This was slim pickings, indeed, compared to Russia's sweep of 11 of the 17 gold medals in gymnastics, three of which were won by lovely Larisa Latynina...
During the Second World War a record sold one-and-a-half million copies; the tune was "Let Me Off Uptown;" the singer, Anita O'Day. She had a unique style, toying with a melody, avoiding sentimentality in the ballads, and introducing jazz idioms. Miss O'Day became hugely popular. Columbia has reissued on LP the original sides she made with Gene Krupa's band, and they preserve their offbeat charm. Listen to the almost wordless "That's What You Think," and you'll realize that Anita is one of the great...