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This coaching round-robin is a problem the Crimson carsmen share with the five other eastern colleges who race 150s. Three years ago Harvard crews were the only ones with a full-time coach. But with the retirement of Bert Haines in 1952 they too joined the carsmen of Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Pennsylvania who learned from a part time coach, part-time graduate student...
...Mado Robin, 35, a petite ambassadress from the Paris Opera, opened the season as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, determined not to go unnoticed. During her first scene, before Rigoletto's house, she was just a demure little coloratura. But opportunity beckoned in her florid aria, Caro Nome, and Soprano Robin seized it: she unexpectedly gave out with what critics call a B "in altissimo"-up in the whistling range. The audience gasped at the piercing sound (which Conductor Fausto Cleva had specifically outlawed during rehearsals), and the critics scolded. Wrote the Examiner's Alexander Fried: "Startling...
...Philadelphia, robust Robin Roberts, 27, pitched the feeble Phillies to an nth-inning 5-4 victory over the New York Giants, winning his 20th game of the year, became the first National Leaguer to turn the trick for five consecutive seasons since the Giants' Carl Hubbell, the "Old Meal Ticket...
...with your dear Lord." But the priest liked the little ruffian,the only other educated man on the poverty-stricken island. It was hard not to like a man who not only treated the poor for nothing but gave them food, money and fuel as well. In Robin Hood fashion, De Geus clipped his few rich patients unmercifully, but no one could accuse him of greed. Before long he and the priest were pals, sat long over the wine after dinner, carried on endless conversations. The peasants were almost as shocked by their priest's choice of company...
...zanne or Modigliani he has just bought. Right away you know you're involved in this purchase somehow. Before the conversation is finished you find you've just donated the painting. I've always thought of Chato as a kind of Brazilian Robin Hood. He robs the rich and gives it to the people...