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Dartmouth is not the Dartmouth of old, at least cross countrywise. Its squad, usually a Crimson nemesis, has lost all three of its meets this season. The varsity should have little trouble adding the Indian's scalp to its lengthy 17-meet skein when the two teams meet at 4 p.m. this afternoon on the Franklin Park course...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Cross Country Team Will Meet Weak Dartmouth Varsity Today | 10/26/1956 | See Source »

...excellent Williams golf team extended its undefeated skein to ten straight at the expense of the varsity yesterday at Williamstown, winning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Golf Squad Loses to Williams, To Play Yale Today | 5/9/1956 | See Source »

Radcliffe's basketball team stretched its undefeated skein to three games by walloping Pine Manor, 37 to 20, yesterday in the Annex gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Young Ladies Win Again | 3/1/1956 | See Source »

...their last meeting, the Crimson edged the Eagles 6 to 5. Providence broke the '59 sextet's 15-game skein on Thursday with a tight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sports | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

...girl Wanda has "elfin-upslanting eyes" and "wheaten lashes," and when Tone is near, she deep-breathes like "a deer chased by dogs." An older woman, a German, finally initiates Tone in the mysteries of sex ("Aber Gott . . . you are so young'1). Meanwhile Author Boles unravels a skein of subplots. Readers will find themselves aging rather more rapidly than Tone, who keeps himself in shape by doing knee-bends in moments of crisis and repeating that everything is "mighty very fine." The same cannot be said of Author Boles's novel, but it does tell a story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

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