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...Champion Althea Gibson. I can't resist mentioning that you left out one of my names, my middle name to be exact, when you were kind enough to include me as a good friend of Althea's. Actually, I was named after my great aunt, Sarah Hammond Palfrey who lived for over 90 years and remained a maiden lady...
...then temporize, pat back her volleys instead of smashing for the kill. Her booming serve gives her the basis of a sound, big game, and no woman playing today has the ground strokes to pass her. "She plays smarter all the time," says her close friend, former Champion Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke Danzig. "She makes fewer mistakes, and she has the natural ability to be still greater than she is." Darlene Hard, who went to the Wimbledon finals with Althea last month and will probably give her her toughest competition at Forest Hills, is even more emphatic: "Althea improved...
Stearns is the First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa and Vice President of Phillips Brooks House. Earlier this year he was awarded the Palfrey Exhibition...
Peter N. Stearns of Urbana, Illinois, won the Palfrey Exhibition for 1956-7. This prize is awarded to the most distinguished scholar in the senior class who holds a stipendary scholarship...
...Charles T. Main Engineering and Construction Company in Boston has been selected to construct the buildings and do all the construction not directly involving the machine. The work is, at present, being coordinated in Palfrey House at the Graduate School of Education...