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...half-way mark. Harvard held a half-length lead on the Penn squad which had beaten the freshmen by about two and a half lengths a week before. In the closing 500 meters as Penn began to challenge the Quaker cox called up the stroke to 39, surging past with a remarkable display of strength. After taking a length lead on the Crimson, Penn lowered the stroke and finished at a fairly ragged...
...Lynda Bird Johnson in an orange brocade thing with a mink hem, and a hair and makeup job courtesy of Hollywood's George Masters. And there was Lana Turner in a $2,000 number described as beaded chiffon, and Shelley Winters in a black sheath with organza Quaker collar and a rented diamond necklace-which somehow got misplaced for a while backstage, provoking from Shelley yet another hysterical Academy Award performance...
Appleby and Davis beat Heckscher and Coonley in the first doubles, 6-2, 6-4. The Crimson pair dominated the match at the net, often returning slams on the volley, to overwhelm the Quaker duo. Todd Wilkinson and Jose Gonzalex beat George and Levin in the second doubles, 12-10. And Dinny Adams and Dan Kleinman stopped Serues and Elliot Abrams in the third match...
Died. Maxfield Parrish, 95, Quaker-born dean of U.S. illustrators, whose diaphanous damsels, Homeric heroes, devilish dwarfs and capering clowns enlivened magazine covers (Collier's, Harper's Weekly), made dull books popular, and helped turn Jell-O and Fisk tires into bestsellers by virtue of their ads; of chronic lung disease; in Plainfield, N.H. In 1964, with a retrospective show in Manhattan, Parrish was hailed as a precursor of pop art, and responded by saying: "How can these avant-garde people get anything out of me? I'm so hopelessly commonplace." Probably his most lasting single work...
...Harvard varsity's delicate psyche came unglued when two Quaker sabremen surpised Crimson fencers at the beginning of the first round with two 5-4 upsets. After Harvard's Al Makaitis nipped Norm Stillman, 5-4, in the first bout, Bob Damus and Dave Redmond dropped matches to Quakers Dan Cohen and Todd Makler by the same score...