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Final statistics show Cavanagh finishing fourth in the Ivy scoring race with ten goals and seventeen assists. Brian Cornell won the title with an Ivy record of 41 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cavanaugh Makes All Ivy Team; NCAA Chooses Mark As All-Star | 3/18/1969 | See Source »

...Navy and had been working--the whole routine--before the Fish finally made it. They had been playing for free in the park in San Francisco for a long time when they never expected much in the way of silver spangled fame. They were nothing like long, curly haired seventeen-year-old Stevie Winwood looking to shoot up to the top as number one rock musician in the world...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: IS ROCK DEAD? | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...answering questions on ROTC itself over fifty per cent stated that they had joined the military program to take care of their service obligation. Thirty-three per cent cited financial reasons, nine per cent a desire to pursue a military career, and seventeen per cent cited patriotism as reasons for joining the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC Students Turn Out Doves; Only 1% Favor Escalation of War | 1/16/1969 | See Source »

Ryder produced only some 160 paintings, left most of them unfinished and parted with few. Strangely enough, the world's largest collection of completed Ryders was stashed away for years (from 1929) in the storerooms and corridors of Washington's Smithsonian Institution. Seventeen of the 18 were the gift of a New Yorker named John Gellatly, an eccentric who had the wit to marry money and the eye to pick Ryder as the American painter who could hold his own with the Europeans. In a final exuberance, Gellatly gave his whole $5,000,000 collection to the Smithsonian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Great Romantic | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

During the last seventeen years, Lowry wrote voluminously, but published nothing. His longest manuscript and many of his notes were lost when his shack burned...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Malcolm Lowry, 11 Years Dead, Is Pawing Through the Ashes of His One Great Work | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

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