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...fact remains, however, that Yale will be laying for the Crimson and will be bolstered in its upset attempt by the return to action of two top sophomores, quarterback Tom Singleton and center Mike Pyle. Singleton led the Elis in their last half drive which almost overhauled Dartmouth several weeks ago, and Pyle is being mentioned as a possible all-Ivy candidate. Both of these key men did not face Princeton...
...realities, Goren saved bridge players countless set contracts, especially at no trump. Another virtue of Goren's method was that it supplied a practical way of taking distribution into account: on suit bids (but not on no-trump) it adds one point for a doubleton, two for a singleton, three for a void...
...also got brilliant Research Scientist George Steele; Steele heads Litton's work on lightweight computers that make up to 15,000 calculations per second for a plane in flight. Litton also lured other top brains away from big companies by granting stock options. Dr. Henry Singleton left North American Aviation for Litton, where in three years he produced the answer to one of the Pentagon's toughest problems: an inertial guidance system that is light enough (50 lbs. v. 500 to 1,000 Ibs. for earlier systems) to steer the most sophisticated missiles...
...early on collecting U.S. paintings. Grandfather Butler spent 40 years tracking down his favorite painting for the collection: Winslow Homer's Snap the Whip (TIME, Aug. 23, 1954). The Butler Institute today has 635 oils, 500 prints, 365 watercolors and drawings, including top works by John Singleton Copley, James Peale, William Harnett, Thomas Eakins and Albert Ryder-far more than enough to fill the two-story museum's nine galleries...
Renato Poggioli, Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, will teach a new course in Dante next year, Wilbur M. Frohock, chairman of the department, announced recently. This course, filling up the gap in Italian Literature courses created by the retirement of Charles M. Singleton, Professor of Romance Literature, last June, is one of three new courses planned in the department...