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Party Line. Hungary, once a limp wrist in international competition, climbed to prowess because the Sports Ministry in Budapest's postwar Communist regime has stuck sternly to the party line that a people's democracy ought to breed winners; the politicians ride herd on the sportsmen to whip them into smooth teamwork. State doctors from the Institute for Sport Hygiene check up on training, state coaches work overtime to turn out well-drilled scoring machines. The fine eleven beat Britain's best in Budapest last May, soon after breezed into Bern and swept easily into the quarter...
Reminiscing on Harvard's athletic prowess, Director of Athletics Thomas D. Bolles observed that in '29s heyday, gridiron enthusiasm (in paid admissions) ran about 80 per cent ahead of modern day spirit...
More than actual rowing prowess, the Crimson eight is spurred on by recalling last year's race, when it licked Navy's heels, a feat that has not been done before or after, at least not up to this Saturday's meeting...
...featured soloist was pianist Findlay Cockrell '57, winner of Pierian Sodality's Concerto Contest this year. His interpretation of the Liszt E-Flat Piano Concerto was refreshing in two respects. He brought to it a brashness and fluency of approach with which his technical prowess was fully capable of coping; and he avoided even the slightest hint of those mannerisms whose abuse has made this work seem hackneyed to many...
...eldest of four children, young Rab left Attock at the age of eight for boarding schools in England's west country. There, and later at Marlborough, one of the top public schools, Rab acquired,an early self-reliance, a retiring manner, and a reputation for scholarship. His athletic prowess was limited by a badly set wrist, broken in a fall from a pony. To amplify the family's modest resources, he spent summers picking mangel-wurzels at 8? an hour...