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Last Year's talented but indifferent squad has given way to a group of positive thinkers. Led by captain Harry Jergesen, the new outfit has the elan vital so notably absent in last year's team but lacks its experience and speed...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Fencers Draw Weapons For Year's First Battle | 11/29/1967 | See Source »

...promoter's point of view, the scheme is well-nigh perfect. So obvious are its charms that when a New Orleans bartender received a probing letter, he neither responded nor complained. He immediately went into the business himself. So did a Boston law student. The original U.S. outfit was apparently Legal Research Inc. in Newport Beach, Calif.; now it has at least 17 competitors, operating everywhere from London to Philadelphia. As for the addressees, even those who fully understand what the letter says may be tempted; $6 against an inheritance of thousands sounds like a good gamble. But, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inheritances: Scheme of the Year | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Harvard's brilliant cross country team goes after the East's top prize--the IC4A championship--at New York's Van Cortlandt Park Monday afternoon. Harvard has never won the IC4A's, and the squad will be facing the toughest competition of the year, but if ever a Crimson outfit should rate a shot at the title, this...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: After A Brilliant Season, One To Go | 11/18/1967 | See Source »

...last-ditch attempt to defeat Gary's Mayoral Candidate Richard Hatcher, the local Democratic machine set out to steal the vote in vintage Tammany Hall style. And the machine under Boss John Krupa, Hatcher's archfoe, was just the outfit to do it. As secretary of the board of election commissioners and the board of canvassers, Krupa dropped from the registration lists the names of 5,286 voters, mostly Negroes. At the same time, hundreds of fictitious registrations were added so that paid impostors could cast ballots against Hatcher. Since his winning margin last week was only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE FRAUD THAT FAILED | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

Scouting reports on Yale and Princeton would indicate that he, and the others better be ready. At the start of the season McCurdy saw Princeton as his strongest Ivy challenger, but comparative scores have shown Yale to be an even stronger outfit...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harriers To Seek Big 3 Title Against Yale, Princeton Today | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

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