Word: poloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From baseball to water polo, The Crimson sports staff covers all of the Harvard athletic scene, both on and off the field. We need you to help us keep track of this varied and important aspect of Harvard life...
...they shrug at their public defenders, and they mumble on the witness stand. Almost any judge will give them a couple of years, suspended on parole. But a few years later they show up again on an armed robbery charge, or even for murder. They wear bright pants and polo shirts and get a few years in the house of correction...
...Charging down is Prince Charles, son of . . . Let me think a minute . . . Oh yes, the Queen and that fellow . . . I remember-Prince Philip." The commentator at the polo match was former American Polo Player Tom Oxley cutting up during the Prince's visit to the Bahamas for their Independence Day celebrations (TIME, July 16). The jokes about the royal family were labored. But when Oxley described polo as a disease like polio, the usually easy-going Prince, 24, had had enough. At half time he grimly ran up the steps of the commentator...
Levine favors sporty clothes (he conducted one recent Ravinia concert in dark blue bell-bottoms and matching polo shirt) and is so relaxed that he can indulge in one of his favorite pastimes, eating, even during intermissions. Aside from his steady girl friend, a Manhattan oboist, he has no organized nonmusical interests except the Navajo rugs and dinosaur bones that he collects for his apartment overlooking Central Park. Says he: "I feel there is enough scheduling in a musician's life that I try not to regulate the other things...
...cause of it, is President James P. Dixon (Antioch, '39; Harvard Medical School, '43), who was serving as Philadelphia's commissioner of health when named to head his alma mater in 1959. Usually chomping on a half-smoked cigar that sprinkles ashes down his rumpled blue polo shirt, Dixon talks in convoluted jargon that has earned him the nickname "Dim Jixon." Students still talk about his speech in 1969 comparing the campus to a well-balanced fishbowl populated with guppies, goldfish and piranhas. "For days," says one senior, "people tried to figure out what he meant...