Word: owen
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Meeting Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, and Yale, and then going to the Easterns on consecutive weeks, the Crimson swimmers definitely were tired, and justifiably so, on Saturday night. I caused defending champion Pete Dillingham to muff his second-last dive in high board competition and finish third behind Navy's Owen Davies and Yale's Ken Welch. It slowed up the Harvard players and added a second to the times of individual medleyist Mary Sandler and sprinter John McNamara, who were eliminated in the trial heats...
Once again Harvard's best chance for a first place rests with diving champion Pete Dillingham, who has swamped the best in the East this year, with one exception. Dillingham's lone loss was to Navy's Jerry Anderson, and fellow sailor Owen Davies, who was ill the weekend of the Harvard-Navy meet, has defeated Anderson several times since. There was some discussion at the time, however, about the Annapolis scoring, and Dillingham will have at least an even chance for revenge in the Easterns...
...inconsistency is the production's crucial flaw, and it is writer-director Verneuil's fault. Although the pace never flags, although several of the jokes are funny, and although the basic situation is sound enough, the play cannot overcome this weakness. Reginald Owen, for instance, starts off his characterization of a retired Secretary of State with finest premium ham. Half way through, he becomes a shrewd man. Owen executes both neither has much to do with the other...
...over Owen Lattimore, the professor and publicist who played an influential role* in the shaping of U.S. Far Eastern policy, is part of a greater clamor of alarm: What U.S. mistakes led to the Communist conquest of China and the assault in Korea? Who is responsible for the mistakes...
Died. Brownlee Owen Currey, 51, investment banker and president of Equitable Securities Corp.; of anemia; in Nashville, Tenn. Starting as a bank clerk while a Vanderbilt undergraduate, Currey wound up as a transit king (American Express Co.), publisher (Southern Agriculturist, Farm and Ranch), city bus-system czar (in Akron, Nashville, Richmond...