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Gary Borchard, the Crimson's slow-footed, sharp-shooting forward, who finished with 20 points, was hitting with almost monotonous regularity, and the first ten minutes presaged an easy romp for the home forces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Five Tops Brandeis, 71-57 | 12/8/1960 | See Source »

Olympian Bruce Hunter splashed his way through the 20 yard Springfield pool to victory in the 60 yard freestyle, while Bob Kaufman, captain Bill Schellstede, Jim Coffman, and Fred Cooley set a new pool record with a 3:57.2 romp in the 400 yard madley relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Open Season With 55-39 Win Over Springfield | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

Across the Business School field from the varsity contest, freshman captain Chris O'Hiri was overpowering Penn with a total of eight goals. The Yardlings, ahead 7 to 0 late in the second quarter, went on to an 11-3 romp over the Quakers...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Crimson Soccer Team Beats Quakers, 2-1; Chang Scores in Last 3 Minutes of Game | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...unless coach John Yoviosin has devised a plan to protect the middle of the field, Penn could turn the contest today into a one-aided romp. Tailbacks Koval and Porter Shreve are both fine passers, and if a Quaker aerial can spring fleet wingback Peter Schants loose in the Crimson secondary, it will be bye, bye, baby...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Crimson Eleven to Face Action Today Against Threatening Penn Air Attack | 10/29/1960 | See Source »

...other Irish patriots who are in along with you") or breezy and old ("Vat 69-that's the Pope's telephone number"), it's easy to make too little of The Hostage, to call it mere tongue-in-cheekiness, a jolly but self-indulgent romp. And as, amid shenanigans, there comes a sudden stab to the heart or a surface shot that plumbs the depths, it is perhaps easy to make too much of it, to find its anarchic flings an assay of an ill-governed world, its rancid taste an assault on respectability. Less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Oct. 3, 1960 | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

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