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Died. Vera Buchanan, 53, Democratic Congresswoman from Pennsylvania who was elected in July 1951 after the death of her husband, Congressman Frank Buchanan, and was twice reelected; after long illness; in McKeesport, Pa...
Third Try. Willie Hartack's success story, once it got started, moved almost as fast as the horses he rides. Born in Ebensburg, Pa. in 1932, Willie graduated from high school too scrawny to work in the coal mines with his father, so skinny that he was even passed over by his draft board. He became a potential Dead End kid, living as high as he could by gambling and shooting craps...
John O'Hara is a skilled writer who hates small towns and (intellectually speaking) has small chance of ever leaving one. The one he has chosen to hate and not permit his readers to leave is a place called Gibbsville, Pa. (he was born in Pottsville, Pa.). The same people are present in this Zenith-on-the-Schuylkill as lived when Julian English made his famous Appointment in Samarra. Old Dr. English is older and discouraged, but Novelist O'Hara, though older (50), is not discouraged...
Pennsylvania's soccer team tied the Crimson for first place in the Ivy League winning its final game 3 to 2, from Cornell on Thursday. The game was played in Haverford, Pa., after being rescheduled from last Saturday at Ithaca. The victory gave the Quakers a season record of five wins and one loss, matching the Crimson's mark, in this first season of Ivy soccer competition. Penn had handed the Crimson its only league loss, a 2-0 defeat in Philadelphia October 29, but third-place Yale had topped the Quakers by an identical score...
Originally scheduled for Ithaca, the game will be played in Haverford, Pa., this Thursday at 10:30 a.m. as part of the annual Penn-Cornell Thanksgiving Day festivities...