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...crushed a double to the gap in right-center, plating junior first baseman Dan Zailskas. Senior left fielder Matt Rogers came up next and belted a long fly ball into the wind that cleared the center-field fence to bring Harvard within two runs. But the comeback attempt fell short when Harvard captain Harry Douglas made the final out of the game on a sharp grounder to first base.COLUMBIA 8, HARVARD 3Pitching made all the difference in the Crimson’s Ivy League opener.Harvard’s hurlers fell behind on counts throughout the game, opening the door...
...19th century, British inventor William Friese-Greene secured a patent for a 3-D movie process. In 1915 Edwin S. Porter, whose The Great Train Robbery had stoked the first great movie sensation a dozen years before, presented a series of 3-D documentary shorts to a New York City audience, who viewed the short documentaries through anaglyph (red-green) glasses. In the 1920s, many 3-D shorts appeared on programs at theaters such as New York's Roxy. MGM presented three 3-D talkie shorts from 1936 to 1941, the last one in Technicolor. The Polaroid filters created...
...Time to Put on Your Glasses: that was the title of a short film made by the renowned avant-garde animator Norman McLaren for the National Film Board of Canada in 1951. It was also the cue for moviegoers the following year, when Bwana Devil, Arch Oboler's low-budget safari epic, introduced 3-D to the postwar audience. "A Lion in Your Lap! A Lover in Your Arms!" the ads read, but the big thrill was a native's spear tossed into the audience. The picture found an audience, and instantly theaters were flooded with 3-D movies - more...
...Friday, and sent the Dow down 1.87%. The broader S&P 500 index fell 2.03%, with 84% of its stocks moving lower. One bit of good news: Friday's decline occurred on relatively light trading volume, and was not surprising given that stocks had risen so far in a short time. Yet a decline is still a decline, and the sharper sell off in financial stocks, which were down 3.4% on Friday, raises questions about the many challenges the industry - and the broader market - still face...
...close loss to the Privateers summed up the Crimson’s entire road trip. Rogers and Douglas each homered, driving in five runs between the two of them, yet the comeback bid came up just short...