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Saturday's 21-19 victory over the highly-touted Pennsylvania Quakers clearly gave legitimacy to the Crimson's claim of prowess on the mat, as heavyweight Kip Smith decisioned his Quaker opponent in the final bout to secure the win for Harvard...
...feats which make the 714 and 60 homerun marks pall. He dredged up some of Babe's stunning epicurean exploits, including the mandatory "couple of hotdogs and a bicarb" immediately preceding every game. And several locker room observers, provide the definitive statement on Ruth's famed sexual prowess. Creamer dwells on the theme of Ruth's distorted sexuality throughout the book, in his usual lucid style...
Secret Agent. At first, accidental drowning seemed the most likely explanation, despite Stonehouse's prowess as a swimmer. But in the weeks since his disappearance, assorted rumors have turned the case into a riveting political whodunit. Some have claimed that Stonehouse was a secret CIA agent; others have suggested Mafia connections. Last week a Czech spy defector named Josip Frolik, who now lives in the U.S. under an assumed name, said that Stonehouse-who was widely known to be a rabid anti-Communist-was in fact a fellow secret agent. In the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
Died. Dr. Kurt Hahn, 88, stern, idealistic German educator for whom moral and physical fitness were as important as academic prowess; in Hermannsburg, West Germany. Hahn's pedagogical plan called for cold showers, periods of silence, and exacting physical trials to harden bodies and toughen minds in the struggle for survival during perilous times. Hahn founded his first school in 1920 at Germany's Salem Castle. When the Nazis forced him to flee 13 years later, he went to the bleak northeast coast of Scotland and started the Gordonstoun School, where Britain's Princes Philip, Charles...
...Walter Lippmann, 1969 He could have held his own in an 18th century salon or coffeehouse, spar ring civilly with the prophets of the Enlightenment. His faith in the dispassion ate application of reason to the muddle of human affairs was no less firm than Voltaire's. His prowess at drawing his tory's sweep from the minutiae of daily events might have impressed even Gibbon. Had they discoursed on politics, he and Edmund Burke would have found themselves on the same aloof Olympian plane...