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...varsity and its Maine rivals traded the next six places, with Captain Dave Norris taking third by 25 yards. Maine's Rearick placed fourth, but he had to hold off the fast-closing Dyke Benjamin, who came from far back to finish a scant two yards behind Rearick...
...takes little pathfinding skill to find the Lawson Academy of Fine Arts. As the advertisements say, its studios are "above Harvard Pro," a scant flight of stairs away from the bottles and crates of Cambridge's thriving liquor outlet. This fact doesn't seem to bother either the artists or Lawson Mooney, their instructor, however, and the trim little rooms on the second floor are spiritually removed from the bustle of Mount Auburn Street...
Yankee Conference champions last year, Maine finished one place and a scant two points behind the Crimson in the IC4A meet. All of the top six runners on this team are back this year, and they will have additional help from a talented group of sophomores...
JOHNNY MATHIS, 21, who was a San Francisco State College sophomore and a high-jump star when Columbia Records heard him singing in his spare time in a San Francisco nightclub. His first, heavily jazz-oriented album limped along un-spectacularly; his first single, Wonderful, Wonderful, attracted scant attention at first. Then it began to light boards in San Francisco and Boston and edge up onto the bestseller charts in the trade press. Another single, It's Not for Me to Say made the charts, too (No. 16 last week...
...lodge has lost its old appeal of exclusiveness and its local VIP leaders, e.g., the town bankers. Says a Missouri Mason: "Men just won't go out to see their mailman drone through a meeting." Even members' funerals, once a must for most orders, get scant attendance. Commented one Knights of Pythias bigwig in Birmingham: "The brothers just don't have the whole spirit...