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Also at stake is the Big Three title. The Crimson seeks its first win in the round-robin competition since 1954, when the varsity beat Princeton, 14 to 9, and upset Yale, 13 to 9. The Bulldog team will be trying for its fourth Big Three championship in five years...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

...newspaper business generally may not know is that in New York State it is a crime to offer or pay a bribe to a newsman, or for that matter, to any other sort of private-enterprise employee (including radio and TV workers). Last week in Manhattan, a pressagent named Robin ("Curly") Harris found out the hard way about the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Learning the Hard Way | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...Robin Howard (Josie) and David Hooks (Jim) lack the aptitude for character work that these early scenes demand, and Michael Murray's direction, competent for the most part, does not make good the deficiency. Miss Howard works at being a great big slob with more assiduity than conviction. Mr. Hooks, charged with the equally difficult task of erecting a convincing facade around Jim's lunar desolation, elects a vaudeville entertainer's spring step and circus-barker patter; but it is the actor, not the character, who seems not quite able to bring...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: A Moon for the Misbegotten | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...wash ing machine." Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner and Metropoli tan Museum ex officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an inverted oatmeal dish." Wright fired back: "It's going to make the Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level base board for reference. Wright replied that the old rectilinear frame of reference was "a coffin for the spirit" and admonished them to wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Monument | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Then, with time running out in the second overtime, a cross from the Crimson's left wing Tadgh Sweeney pulled goalie Robin Parkman far out of position. Ekpebu, at center forward, got off a low, fast shot toward the empty nets, but Amherst fullback Drew Mallory sank to his knees in front of the goal and blocked the ball with his chest. By the time varsity inside Bruce Johnstone could follow up Ekpebu's shot, Parkman was in position to block the attempt...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Varsity Plays to 1-1 Tie With Aggressive Amherst Squad | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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