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Died. William Curtis Bok, 64, longtime Pennsylvania jurist elected to a 21-year term on the state Supreme Court in 1958, a liberal, civic-minded Quaker who, as a scion of the Curtis and Bok publishing dynasty, was considered something of a renegade by his Main Line neighbors because of his New Deal politics; after a long illness; in Philadelphia's suburban Radnor. By his death, Bok, as one of five Curtis trustees, held up the possibility (strongly rumored, but unconfirmed) that Doubleday & Co. was about to buy into the Philadelphia-based magazine empire, in the red last year...
...always been that way. After its 1957 founding (cochairmen: Saturday Review Editor Norman Cousins and Quaker Leader Clarence Pick-ett), SANE became a haven for crackpots and leftists of all stripes. In its policies, it always seemed to condemn the U.S. while rarely criticizing the Soviet Union. Publicly denounced by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, SANE's board was badly split over how to deal with the organization's fellow travelers...
...Harvard lacrosse team arrived in the seventh, just in time to watch the boys from Penn rack up five runs. The Penn rally started when Harvard helped them load the bases on two walks and the lone Crimson error. Four Quaker singles followed to give Penn its only scoring inning...
Died. Henry McBride, 94, twinkly, oracular art critic for the old New York Sim and the magazines Dial and Art News, a Pennsylvania Quaker who started out illustrating seed catalogues and wound up as one of the U.S.'s most influential promoters of modern art, and the intimate of such Parisian cognoscenti as Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso; in The Bronx...
...Quaker captain Slater is by all odds the star of the Penn Squad, but tonight he will probably finish ten seconds behind the Crimson's Harry Turner and George Mulligan in the 440, his specialty...