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...Sore Need. Curtis' principal financial savior is a short, Russian-born, multilingual financier named Serge Semenenko, 60. Vice chairman of Boston's old and eminently respectable First National Bank, Semenenko has long enjoyed a reputation in banking circles for rescuing failing corporations with timely infusions of credit. Among his patients: the Hearst publishing empire, which he helped cure, in the early 1940s, of a disastrous indebtedness of nearly $150 million. In the fall of 1962, when Curtis' new president, Matthew J. Culligan, approached Semenenko, the venerable magazine-publishing house stood in sore need of Semenenko...
...Still sore and partially maimed from its encounter with Princeton last week, Brown travels to Ithaca to play hot-and cold Cornell. Rob Hall's broken leg has assured a starting job for quarterback Jim Dunda, which probably means Brown will pass on every other play at least...
Troubled Tightwad. For all his money, though, Genovese was a tightwad. Fearful that members of his dope ring might cheat him, he mixed into narcotics dealings that he might well have handled by remote control. In 1957 a Genovese dope peddler arrested in Manhattan got sore because the boss failed to come to his rescue with a bail bond and a lawyer. The prisoner got even by spilling the gang's secrets; two years later Genovese and fourteen other hoods were convicted of violating federal narcotics laws. The boss was sentenced to 15 years in prison...
Fortunately, Harvard is now in the best shape it has been in all year. Captain Ed Meshan is still bothered by sore Achilles' tendons, but his record-breaking performance against Dartmouth last Friday was his finest of the season. If Walt Hewiett finishes first, as expected, a one-two Harvard sweep may be in the offing...
Meehan experimented by running with both his ankles taped tightly. Judging by his record breaking performance, the Crimson captain may have found at last the "cure" for the sore Achilles tendons that have plagued him all season...